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A bill to designate the headquarters building of the Department of Education in Washington, DC, as the Lyndon Baines Johnson Federal Building.

Bill: 110-s-370
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2007-01-23 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Department of Education
District of Columbia
Ex-presidents
Federal office buildings
Government Operations and Politics
History
Johnson Administration
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: 
Designates the headquarters building of the Department of Education in Washington, DC, as the &quot;Lyndon Baines Johnson Federal Building.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Introduced in Senate
Appropriate and Consistent Care for Youth Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-371
Sponsor: Sen. Martinez, Mel [R-FL]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Child welfare
Families
Group homes
Hours of labor
Poor children
Single people
Social Welfare
Social work
Volunteer workers
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
 Appropriate and Consistent Care for Youth Act of 2007 - Amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to extend to single employees (residing in educational institutions where they receive lodging and board free of charge) the house parent exemption to certain maximum hour requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1059)
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1058-1059)
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to facilitate and expedite direct refunds to coal producers and exporters of the excise tax unconstitutionally imposed on coal exported from the United States.

Bill: 110-s-373
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Coal
Energy
Excise tax
Exports
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Interest
Sales tax
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to refund a portion of the excise tax paid by certain coal producers on coal exported to a foreign country or shipped to a U.S. possession after October 1, 1990.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Art and Collectibles Capital Gains Tax Treatment Parity Act

Bill: 110-s-374
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Art
Arts, Culture, Religion
Capital gains tax
Charitable contributions
Income tax
Literature
Music
Tax deductions
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Art and Collectibles Capital Gains Tax Treatment Parity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) eliminate the 28-percent capital gains tax rate for collectibles, thus allowing gain from the sale of collectibles (including art works) to be taxed at the 15-percent tax rate applicable to other investment property; (2) allow the creator of a literary, musical, artistic, or scholarly property a fair market value tax deduction for the donation of such property to a tax-exempt organization, if properly appraised and donated no sooner than 18 months after its creation. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1060-1061)
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1059-1060)
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-376
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Federal law enforcement officers
Firearms
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Licenses
Police
Police training
Railroad passenger traffic
Railroad safety
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) include Amtrak and executive branch police officers in the authorization for active and retired law enforcement officers to carry concealed weapons; (2) reduce from 15 to 10 years the length of service requirement for retired law enforcement officers to carry concealed weapons; (3) eliminate the requirement that a retired law enforcement officer have a non-forfeitable right to retirement benefits to qualify for a concealed weapons permit; and (4) revise firearms training and identification requirements for retired law enforcement officers who carry concealed weapons.

action_date: 2007-09-05
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) include Amtrak and executive branch police officers in the authorization for active and retired law enforcement officers to carry concealed weapons; (2) reduce from 15 to 10 years the length of service requirement for retired law enforcement officers to carry concealed weapons; (3) eliminate the requirement that a retired law enforcement officer have a non-forfeitable right to retirement benefits to qualify for a concealed weapons permit; and (4) revise firearms training and identification requirements for retired law enforcement officers who carry concealed weapons.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-05
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 341.
action_date: 2007-09-05
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. With written report No. 110-150. Minority views filed.
action_date: 2007-09-05
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. With written report No. 110-150. Minority views filed.
action_date: 2007-05-17
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Committee consideration and Mark Up Session held.
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Committee consideration and Mark Up Session held.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1061-1062)
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1061)
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Foster Care Mentoring Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-379
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Academic performance
Adoption
Alcohol and youth
Child abuse
Child development
Child welfare
Church and social problems
Community organization
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Dropouts
Drug abuse
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Family violence
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Graduate education
Higher education
Homeless
Identification of criminals
Indian children
Information services
Internet
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Mentoring
Minorities
Native Americans
Religion
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teenage pregnancy
Telephone
Volunteer workers
Web sites
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Foster Care Mentoring Act of 2007 - Amends title IV part B (Child-Welfare Services) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to states to support the establishment or expansion and operation of programs using networks of public and private community entities to provide mentoring for children in foster care. Authorizes a grant award directly to a political subdivision if the subdivision serves a substantial number of foster care youth.
 
Prescribes program implementation guidelines, including: (1) application requirements; (2) training; (3) screening; (4) educational requirements; (5) federal and nonfederal share of funds for the program; (6) considerations in awarding grants; and (7) use of funds. 
Sets forth a maximum grant amount to be awarded to a state or political subdivision. 
Authorizes the Secretary to award a competitive grant to an eligible entity to establish a National Hotline Service or website to provide information to individuals interested in becoming mentors to youth in foster care. 
Instructs the Secretary of Education to implement a program to provide for the discharge or cancellation of the federal student loan indebtedness of an eligible mentor.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-380
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Authorization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
County politics and government
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational facilities
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Fire prevention
Fishery management
Forest conservation
Forest ecology
Forest fires
Forest management
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Habitat conservation
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Land use
National forests
Performance measurement
Restoration ecology
Revenue sharing
Road construction
Rural education
Transportation and Public Works
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Amends the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 to extend the Act through FY2013.
 
Revises requirements regarding the merchantable material contracting pilot program.
 
Requires counties participating in county projects to submit a specified notification for each project for which the participating county obligated county funds. Provides for the review of such notifications.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-60.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Keeping Families Together Act

Bill: 110-s-382
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Academic performance
Case management
Child health
Child welfare
Community health services
Continuing education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal statistics
Custody of children
Data banks
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Family courts
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to child health services
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Group homes
Health
Health insurance
Health planning
Home care services
Housing and Community Development
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Law
Medicaid
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Mental health services
Patient satisfaction
Performance measurement
Poor children
Preventive medicine
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
State finance
State laws
Welfare waivers
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Keeping Families Together Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to award competitive matching grants to states to establish systems of care to treat and provide services to all children who are in the custody of the state or at-risk of entering into the custody of the state for the purpose of receiving mental health services. 
 
Requires states to use grant funds for certain activities, including to: (1) expand public health insurance programs to cover community-based mental health and family support services for such children and their families that will be sustainable after the grant has expired; (2) provide outreach and public education concerning available programs and activities; and (3) provide training and professional development for personnel who work with such children.
 
Requires the Administrator to establish a task force to examine: (1) problems of mental health in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems; (2) issues with respect to access by children and youth to mental health services; and (3) the role of federal agencies in promoting access by children and youth to mental health services. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1067-1069)
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the period of eligibility for health care for combat service in the Persian Gulf War or future hostilities from two years to five years after discharge or release.

Bill: 110-s-383
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Environmental Protection
Health
Hospital care
Radiation victims
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Extends from two years to five years following discharge or release the eligibility period for certain veterans who served in combat after the Persian Gulf War to receive hospital care, medical services, or nursing home care provided by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, notwithstanding a lack of evidence to conclude that their condition is attributable to such service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1070)
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Helping Our Patriotic Employers at Helping Our Military Employees Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-384
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Commerce
Defined benefit pension plans
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Leave of absence
Military pay
Military personnel
National Guard
Salaries
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Veterans' employment
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Helping Our Patriotic Employers at Helping Our Military Employees Act of 2007 or the HOPE at HOME Act of 2007- Entitles federal employees who are absent from their jobs for a period of more than 90 days for the purpose of performing active duty service in the uniformed services to receive the full amount of basic pay that they would have received if there had been no such interruption in their federal employment.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow employers a business tax credit for 50 percent of the actual compensation paid to Ready Reserve-National Guard employees while on active duty or hospitalized incident to such duty; (2) allow employers a tax credit for wages paid to temporary employees hired to replace Ready Reserve-National Guard employees while on active duty; (3) provide for withholding of tax on differential wage payments to active duty members of the uniformed services; and (4) treat such differential wage payments as employee compensation for retirement plan purposes, including for the deductibility of contributions to individual retirement accounts. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1070-1071)
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Interoperable Emergency Communications Act

Bill: 110-s-385
Sponsor: Sen. Inouye, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Communication satellites
Computer software
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Police communication systems
Standards
Technology assessment
Urban affairs
Urban areas
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Interoperable Emergency Communications Act - Amends the Digital Television Transition and Public Safety Act of 2005 to revise provisions concerning the grant program to assist public agencies in establishing the interoperability of public safety emergency communications to specify five (currently, one) specific grant activities. Requires the awarding of at least $1 billion by September 30, 2007, pursuant to provisions of the Call Home Act of 2006.
 

 
Amends the Post-Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act of 2006 to prohibit construing such Act or any amendments made by it as limiting the authority of the Department of Commerce or the Federal Communications Commission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-05
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 67.
action_date: 2007-03-05
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Inouye with amendments and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 110-30.
action_date: 2007-03-05
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Reported by Senator Inouye with amendments and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 110-30.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1071-1072)
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1071)
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Cellulosic Ethanol Incentive Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-386
Sponsor: Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Cellulose
Energy
Motor vehicle pollution control
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Cellulosic Ethanol Incentive Act of 2007 - Amends the Clean Air Act to: (1) increase the volume of renewable fuel required to be in gasoline for 2012; (2) prescribe such volumes applicable for 2013 through 2030; (3) apply existing requirements (with a revised ratio) for determining volumes for years not specified to calendar year 2031 and thereafter; (4) prescribe increasing minimum quantities of renewable fuel that must be derived from cellolosic biomass for 2010 through 2030; and (5) apply, for 2010 and thereafter, the 2.5-to-1 ratio of cellulosic biomass ethanol or waste derived ethanol to renewable fuel only to the quantity of cellulosic biomass ethanol sold that is in excess of the minimum quantity of renewable fuel derived from cellulosic biomass required for that year. 

Requires not less than 30% of the total volume of renewable fuel required in a state under this Act to be derived from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) region in which the state is located. Allows the Administrator of the EPA to reduce or waive such requirement if it would be impracticable for the region to produce the required volume of renewable fuel.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1073)
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1072-1073)
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in Senate
Stop Arming Iran Act

Bill: 110-s-387
Sponsor: Sen. Wyden, Ron [D-OR]
Introduced: 2007-01-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Arms sales
Auctions
Commerce
Export controls
Fighter aircraft
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Iran
Licenses
Middle East and North Africa
Military and naval supplies
Surplus government property

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: 
Stop Arming Iran Act - Prohibits the Department of Defense (DOD) from selling any parts for the F-14 fighter aircraft (parts), whether through the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service or through another DOD agency or element.
 
Provides an exception with respect to the sale of such parts to a U.S. museum or similar organization involved in the preservation of F-14 fighter aircraft for historical purposes.
 
Prohibits the issuance of any license for the export of such parts to a non-U.S. person or entity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12369)
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1190)
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1190)
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to provide a national standard in accordance with which nonresidents of a State may carry concealed firearms in the State.

Bill: 110-s-388
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2007-01-25 in the Senate
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: 2007-01-25
text: 
Amends the federal criminal code to authorize a nonresident of a state to carry concealed firearms (other than a machinegun or destructive device) in that state if such nonresident has a valid permit to carry firearms in any state and is not prohibited from carrying a firearm under federal law, subject to restrictions imposed by the state issuing the permit or under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-25
text: Introduced in Senate