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Fairness in Trucking Transactions Act

Bill: 110-hr-5997
Sponsor: Rep. Barrow, John [D-GA-12]
Introduced: 2008-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Business records
Commerce
Damages
Energy
Energy prices
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Freight forwarders
Fuel
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal fees
Transportation rates
Truck drivers
Trucking

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: 
Fairness in Trucking Transactions Act - Amends federal transportation law to require certain fuel cost reimbursements by a motor carrier, broker, or freight forwarder providing or arranging truckload transportation or service using fuel for which it does not bear the cost.
 
Requires such a motor carrier, broker, or freight forwarder to reimburse persons (truckers) that do bear fuel costs for any such costs they have paid.
 
Prohibits any person from causing a motor carrier, broker, or freight forwarder to present false or misleading information on a document or in an oral representation about the actual rate, charge, or allowance to any party to the transaction or transportation.
 
Sets forth additional civil penalties (including the award of treble damages by a court) for a motor carrier, broker, or freight forwarder that fails to make a fuel cost payment to the cost bearer.
 
Provides for the confidentiality of information obtained by the Secretary of Transportation or the Surface Transportation Board in investigations of alleged violations of the payment of fuel costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Protecting Children's Health Coverage Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-5998
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2008-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Health insurance
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: 
Protecting Children's Health Coverage Act of 2008 - Nullifies any effectiveness of the August 17, 2007, State Health Official Letter issued by the Director of the Center for Medicaid and State Operations of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (with respect to extension to uninsured children of health insurance under title XIX (Medicaid) or XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP)).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
To authorize appropriations for the National Tropical Botanical Garden, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-5999
Sponsor: Rep. Hirono, Mazie K. [D-HI-2]
Introduced: 2008-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Authorization
Botanical gardens
Economics and Public Finance
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Nonprofit organizations
Plant protection
Plants
Social Welfare
Tropical agriculture

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: 
Authorizes appropriations for FY2008-FY2017 to the National Tropical Botanical Garden for operation and maintenance expenses.
 
Requires such funds to be matched on a one-to-one basis by non-federal funds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E870)
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Gas Price Spike Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6000
Sponsor: Rep. Kucinich, Dennis J. [D-OH-10]
Introduced: 2008-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Automobile industry
Buy American
Collective bargaining
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Energy efficiency
Excess profits tax
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to transportation
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fuel consumption
Gas industry
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Labor contracts
Mass rapid transit
Motor buses
Motor vehicles
Natural gas
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Railroad commuting traffic
Subways
Tax credits
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: 
Gas Price Spike Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a windfall profit tax on crude oil, natural gas, or products of crude oil or natural gas. Defines &quot;windfall profit&quot; as so much of the profit on a sale of crude oil, natural gas, or related products as exceeds a reasonable profit. Establishes the Reasonable Profits Board to determine levels of reasonable profit from the sale of such products. 

Allows a tax credit for the purchase of certain fuel-efficient, American-made passenger vehicles. 

Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to operators of mass transit systems, including bus and commuter rail systems, to reduce passenger fares on such systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Free Way Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6002
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Gary G. [R-CA-42]
Introduced: 2008-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Car pools
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Highway finance
Limited access highways
Toll roads

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: 
Free Way Act of 2008 - Prohibits a state from collecting a toll from an operator of a high occupany vehicle (HOV) that was permitted to use a HOV lane in the state at no cost before December 31, 2007. (Currently, a state is allowed to collect a toll from any operator of a HOV vehicle that uses an HOV lane in the state.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Tribal Charities Fairness Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6005
Sponsor: Rep. Becerra, Xavier [D-CA-31]
Introduced: 2008-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charities
Foundations
Income tax
Minorities
Native Americans
Social Welfare
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: 
Tribal Charities Fairness Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the treatment of Indian tribal governments as state governments for the purposes of the public charity-private foundation classification. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to authorize the Secretary of a military department, and the Secretary of Defense with respect to the Defense Agencies, to participate in conservation banking programs and in-lieu-fee mitigation programs.

Bill: 110-hr-6006
Sponsor: Del. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2008-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Animals
Construction costs
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Habitat conservation
Labor and Employment
Land banking
Military construction operations
Military operations
Military readiness
Military research
Military training
Nature conservation
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of a military department, and the Secretary of Defense for a Defense Agency, when engaged or proposing to engage in military testing, operations, training, or another military readiness activity or military construction that may or will result in an adverse impact to one or more species protected (or pending protection) under any applicable provision of law, or habitat for such species, to make payments to a conservation banking program or &quot;in-lieu-fee&quot; mitigation sponsor approved in accordance with the Federal Guidance for the Establishment, Use and Operation of Mitigation Banks, the Guidance for the Establishment, Use, and Operation of Conservation Banks or any successor or related administrative guidance or regulation.
 
Allows such payments to a conservation banking program or &quot;in-lieu-fee&quot; mitigation sponsor for military construction to be treated as eligible costs of the construction project. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of Transportation to establish a Port of Guam Improvement Enterprise Program, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-6007
Sponsor: Del. Bordallo, Madeleine Z. [D-GU-At Large]
Introduced: 2008-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Federal-territorial relations
Federally-guaranteed loans
Freight
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government trust funds
Guam
Intermodal transportation
Marine terminals
Marine transportation
Port authorities
Public-private partnerships
Security measures
Transportation engineering
Transportation planning

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation, acting through the Administrator of the Maritime Administration, to establish a Port of Guam Improvement Enterprise Program for the planning, design, and construction of projects for the Port of Guam to improve port facilities, relieve congestion, increase port security, and provide greater access to port facilities.
 
Expands intermodal surface freight transfer facility project eligibility for federal loans, loan guarantees, and lines of credit to include an intermodal or marine facility project under the Program. 
 
Establishes the Port of Guam Improvement Enterprise Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2008-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Improving Methods to Promote Regular Occurrences of the Verification of Employability Status Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6008
Sponsor: Rep. Broun, Paul C. [R-GA-10]
Introduced: 2008-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Alien labor
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Employee selection
Employers' liability
English language
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Labor and Employment
Law
Signs and signboards

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: 
Improving Methods to Promote Regular Occurrences of the Verification of Employability Status Act of 2008 - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to eliminate the pilot program status of the E-verify (employment authorization) program.
 
Revises confirmation provisions. Adds provisions respecting fraudulent documentation and sanctions. Provides that information posters required to be displayed shall be written only in English.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
National Trauma Institute Research Program Act

Bill: 110-hr-6010
Sponsor: Rep. Gonzalez, Charles A. [D-TX-20]
Introduced: 2008-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Civil-military relations
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Medical research
Military medicine
Public-private partnerships
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications
Trauma care
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: 
National Trauma Institute Research Program Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a National Trauma Institute Research Program at the National Trauma Institute as a military-civilian public-private partnership to nationally fund trauma research.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Veterans to Paramedics Transition Act

Bill: 110-hr-6011
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2008-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee training
Federal aid to health facilities
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Medical education
Paramedical personnel
Rural health
Veterans' employment

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: 
Veterans to Paramedics Transition Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) include among entities eligible for rural emergency medical service training and equipment grants entities that provide training for emergency medical services personnel, including institutions of higher education, technical colleges, community colleges, and other state-certified training entities; and (2) include among grant uses the provision of required coursework and training to enable military veterans to satisfy emergency medical services personnel certification requirements, as determined by the appropriate state regulatory entity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
To require the Comptroller General to conduct a study of the consolidation of the refiners, importers, producers, and wholesalers of gasoline with the sellers of such gasoline at retail.

Bill: 110-hr-6012
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2008-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporate mergers
Economic concentration
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Energy prices
Gasoline
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Service stations
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: 
Instructs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the consolidation of refiners, importers, producers, and wholesalers of gasoline with the sellers of such gasoline at retail. 
 
Requires the study to analyze: (1) the impact of such consolidation upon the retail price of gasoline, small business ownership, and local communities; and (2) other corollary effects on the market economy of fuel distribution.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Ratepayer Recovery Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-6013
Sponsor: Rep. Melancon, Charlie [D-LA-3]
Introduced: 2008-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Disaster relief
Electric power distribution
Electric power production
Emergency Management

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: 
Ratepayer Recovery Act of 2007 [
sic
]- Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to cite conditions under which the President is authorized to make disaster assistance contributions for the repair, restoration, reconstruction, or replacement of private or investor-owned power transmission and distribution facilities damaged or destroyed by a major disaster.

Cites conditions for large in-lieu contributions to a private or investor-owned power facility in any case in which the owner determines that the public welfare would not best be served by repairing, restoring, reconstructing, or replacing the facility.

Restricts the use of such funds to the area affected as a result of the major disaster.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Birthmother Assistance Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6014
Sponsor: Rep. Schmidt, Jean [R-OH-2]
Introduced: 2008-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adoption
Families
Income tax
Mothers
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: 
Birthmother Assistance Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a child tax credit to the birthmother of a child who is formally placed for adoption and to the taxpayer who adopts such child. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
Post Office Modernization Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6016
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2008-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Environmental Protection
Executive reorganization
Postal facilities
Potable water
Sanitary engineering
United States Postal Service
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: 
Post Office Modernization Act of 2008 - Requires the Postal Service to ensure that every post office has access to running water and bathroom facilities.
 
 Prohibits the Post Office, in making a determination whether or not to close or consolidate a post office, from considering whether the post office meets the requirements of this Act.
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 10, United States Code, to increase loan repayment limits for health professionals serving in the Armed Forces.

Bill: 110-hr-6018
Sponsor: Rep. Tsongas, Niki [D-MA-5]
Introduced: 2008-05-08 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Health
Higher education
Medical education
Medical personnel
Military medicine
Scholarships
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: 
Amends provisions authorizing educational loan repayment in exchange for service as a health professional in the Selected Reserved of an armed force and determined to be needed critically in order to meet identified wartime combat medical skill shortages to limit payment amounts to $60,000 (currently, $20,000) per year of service. Eliminates provisions limiting the total amount that may be repaid on behalf of any person to $50,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-05-08
text: Introduced in House