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Juvenile Justice Accountability and Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4300
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2007-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Juvenile delinquency
Law
Legal aid
Life imprisonment
Parole
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: 
Juvenile Justice Accountability and Improvement Act of 2007 - Requires states to enact laws and adopt policies to grant child offenders who are under a life sentence a meaningful opportunity for parole at least once during their first 15 years of incarceration and at least once every three years thereafter. Defines &quot;child offender who is under a life sentence&quot; as an individual who is convicted of a criminal offense before attaining the age of 18 and sentenced to a term of natural life or its functional equivalent in years. 

Requires the Attorney General to: (1) establish and implement a system of early release for each child offender who is under a life sentence in a federal prison; and (2) award grants to states to improve legal representation and other services for child defendants charged with an offense carrying a possible sentence of life in prison. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 18, United States Code, to require the reading in open court in criminal cases of crime victims' rights.

Bill: 110-hr-4302
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2007-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal procedure
Judges
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Trials
Victims of crimes

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: 
Amends the federal criminal code to require the judge in the trial of every criminal case, or at sentencing if there is no trial, to read in open court the rights of crime victims as provided by federal law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income rewards received for information provided with respect to violations of Federal criminal law.

Bill: 110-hr-4303
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2007-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Compensation (Law)
Crime and Law Enforcement
Income tax
Informers
Law
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income payments received from a state or federal law enforcement agency for information relating to the violation of a federal criminal law. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
Army Corps of Engineers Recreation Improvement Act

Bill: 110-hr-4304
Sponsor: Rep. Boozman, John [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2007-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Government trust funds
Outdoor recreation
Sports and Recreation
User charges
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: 
Army Corps of Engineers Recreation Improvement Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to charge recreation fees at lands and waters administered by the Corps of Engineers in the same manner the Secretary of the Interior may charge such fees with respect to federal recreation lands and waters managed by the Bureau of Reclamation.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a special account in the Treasury for the Corps, which shall be used for the same purpose and subject to the same conditions as the special accounts established for each federal land management agency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
Consumer Freedom of Choice in Cable Act

Bill: 110-hr-4307
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2007-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Cable television
Commerce
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Telecommunication industry

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: 
 Consumer Freedom of Choice in Cable Act - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to remove provisions authorizing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), when cable systems with at least 36 channels are available to 70% of U.S. households and are subscribed to by 70% of households to which such systems are available (sometimes referred to as the 70/70 rule), to promulgate additional rules necessary to provide diversity of information sources.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
NASA Innovation Fund and Sponsorship Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4308
Sponsor: Rep. Calvert, Ken [R-CA-44]
Introduced: 2007-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Advertising
Aeronautics
Astronautics
Awards, medals, prizes
Commemorations
Commerce
Competition
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Research and development
Sales promotion
Signs and symbols
Space activities
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: 
NASA Innovation Fund and Sponsorship Act of 2007 - Establishes within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) a NASA Innovation Fund into which amounts collected from charitable donations or in accordance with the Innovation Fund Sponsorship Program (created by this Act) shall be transferred. 

Authorizes and sets limits on the use of amounts in the Fund for: (1) advertising prize competitions under NASA's Centennial Challenges prize program to stimulate innovation in basic and applied research, technology development, and prototype demonstration that have the potential for application to the performance of space and aeronautical activities of NASA; and (2) expenses incurred in the administration of such competitions.

Establishes the NASA Innovation Fund Sponsorship Advisory Committee to advise the Administrator of NASA on carrying out the Innovation Fund Sponsorship Program. 

Permits any person, under the Innovation Fund Sponsorship Program, to develop and implement a promotional program that includes the use of a partnership logo in exchange for a monetary contribution to the Fund from such person. Requires the NASA Administrator to select and adopt the logo to be used in the promotional program of any sponsor, based upon the recommendations of the Advisory Committee. 

Requires the NASA Administrator to transmit annual reports to Congress on all action taken by NASA under such Program.

Requires the Advisory Committee to annually consult with the directors of specified NASA Centers to solicit ideas for the improvement of such Program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
Border Wait Times Study Act

Bill: 110-hr-4309
Sponsor: Rep. Rodriguez, Ciro D. [D-TX-23]
Introduced: 2007-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Boundaries
Canada
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Governmental investigations
International Affairs
Latin America
Mexico
Motor vehicles
Traffic congestion
Trucking

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: 
Border Wait Times Study Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation to study and report to Congress on the traffic patterns of commercial and passenger vehicles that enter and exit U.S. international land ports of entry along the northern and southern borders.
 
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to study and report to Congress on the negative economic impact, if any, on the United States of wait times at such ports of entry.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
School Energy Crisis Relief Act

Bill: 110-hr-4310
Sponsor: Rep. Baca, Joe [D-CA-43]
Introduced: 2007-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Energy
Energy prices
Federal aid to education
Gasoline
Heating
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student transportation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: 
School Energy Crisis Relief Act - Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish a grants program for eligible local educational agencies that have experienced the highest percentage increase (or expenditure increase) in transportation and heating fuel costs among all local educational agencies (LEA's) in a state for a specific time period during the current school year, in comparison to the same time period during the prior school year.

Authorizes the use of funds for: (1) the cost of transportation or heating fuel purchased by eligible LEA's; or (2) transportation fuel purchased by entities under contract to provide transportation services to such LEA's.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
School Choice for Foster Kids Act

Bill: 110-hr-4311
Sponsor: Rep. Bachmann, Michele [R-MN-6]
Introduced: 2007-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Foster home care
School choice
Secondary education
Student transportation
Travel costs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: 
School Choice for Foster Kids Act - Amends part E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance) of title IV of the Social Security Act to authorize states to use funds provided under the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence program to provide vouchers to foster children of all ages to cover their elementary and secondary private school tuition and public school transportation costs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend certain benefits applicable to the Gulf Opportunity Zone, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-4312
Sponsor: Rep. Baker, Richard H. [R-LA-6]
Introduced: 2007-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alabama
Bonds
Building construction
Commerce
Community development
Community development banking
Depreciation and amortization
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Hurricanes
Income tax
Infrastructure
Investments
Labor and Employment
Louisiana
Mississippi
Regional economic development
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax incentives
Texas
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2010 increased depreciation allowances for certain business and investment property located in the Gulf Opportunity Zone (GO Zone) (through 2011 for nonresidential real property or residential rental property in the GO Zone); (2) extend through 2012 special rules relating to the depreciation of buildings in the GO Zone; (3) extend through 2010 the tax credit for rehabilitation expenditures in the GO Zone; (4) increase the new markets tax credit limitation in 2008 and 2009 for investments in community development entities serving the GO Zone; (5) extend through 2012, and increase the authority for, tax-exempt bond financing for bonds issued by Louisiana or a political subdivision thereof; (6) authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to expand an area designated as a renewal community; and (7) extend through 2012 the period for designating areas located in the GO Zone as renewal communities. 

Amends the Katrina Emergency Tax Relief Act of 2005 to extend for an additional two years the hiring period of employees in the Hurricane Katrina disaster area for purposes of the work opportunity tax credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
Advocates Dedicated to Older Child Parental Tax Credit (ADOPT) Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4313
Sponsor: Rep. Bean, Melissa L. [D-IL-8]
Introduced: 2007-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adoption
Age
Cost of living adjustments
Costs
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Tax credits
Youth

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: 
Advocates Dedicated to Older Child Parental Tax Credit (ADOPT) Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a $2,000 tax credit for costs associated with the adoption of a child who has reached nine years of age before the adoption decree becomes final. Allows the credit each year until such child attains the age of 19.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain color video monitors.

Bill: 110-hr-4314
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2007-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain color video monitors.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain color video monitors.

Bill: 110-hr-4315
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2007-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain color video monitors.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain black and white monitors.

Bill: 110-hr-4316
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2007-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain black and white monitors.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain color video monitors.

Bill: 110-hr-4317
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2007-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on certain color video monitors.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the penalty on the understatement of taxpayer's liability by tax return preparers.

Bill: 110-hr-4318
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2007-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Evidence (Law)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Income tax
Law
Tax evasion
Tax penalties
Tax preparers
Tax returns
Tax shelters

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the standards for imposing penalties on tax return preparers for understatements of tax to require: (1) substantial authority for a position with respect to an item on a tax return if such position was not disclosed with the return; and (2) a reasonable basis for a position which was disclosed with the return. 

Requires tax return preparers to have a reasonable belief that a position with respect to a tax shelter or a reportable transaction (a transaction having a potential for tax avoidance or evasion) will more likely than not be sustained on its merits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
To extend the temporary suspension of duty on parts for use in the manufacture of certain high-performance loudspeakers.

Bill: 110-hr-4319
Sponsor: Rep. Duncan, John J., Jr. [R-TN-2]
Introduced: 2007-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to extend the temporary suspension of duty on parts for use in the manufacture of certain high-performance loudspeakers.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to strengthen the Medicaid third-party liability requirements.

Bill: 110-hr-4320
Sponsor: Rep. Engel, Eliot L. [D-NY-17]
Introduced: 2007-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Business records
Claims
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health insurance
Insurance companies
Labor and Employment
Law
Medicaid
Social Welfare
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to direct state Medicaid plans to require the state to provide the Secretary of Health and Human Services with satisfactory assurances that it has in effect laws requiring the state to make inquiries to third parties, including health insurers, self-insured plans, group health plans, or other parties operating in any state that are responsible for payment of a claim for a health care item or service.
 
Requires third parties to: (1) provide, upon state request, information about Medicaid-eligible or -receiving individuals to determine during what period the individual (or the spouse or dependents) may be (or may have been) covered by a health insurer, as well as the nature of such coverage; (2) accept the state's right of recovery and the assignment to the state of any right of an individual or other entity to payment from the party for an item or service for which payment has been made under the state plan; and (3) agree not to deny a claim submitted by the state solely on the basis of its date of submission, the type or format of the claim form, or a failure to present proper documentation at the point-of-sale that is the basis of the claim, if the claim is submitted by the state within three years after the item or service was furnished, and any action by the state to enforce its rights is commenced within six years of its submission of the claim.
 
Establishes a civil monetary penalty for a third party's failure to reply to inquiries required by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
Enhancing Safety in Medicine Utilizing Leading Advanced Simulation Technologies to Improve Outcomes Now Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4321
Sponsor: Rep. Forbes, J. Randy [R-VA-4]
Introduced: 2007-12-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Employee training
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Medical education
Medical research
Medical technology
Science, Technology, Communications
Simulation methods

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: 
Enhancing Safety in Medicine Utilizing Leading Advanced Simulation Technologies to Improve Outcomes Now Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to conduct and support research, evaluations, initiatives, and demonstration projects, and provide grants or enter into contracts or cooperative agreements, to enhance the deployment of medical simulation technologies and the incorporation of such technologies and equipment into medical, nursing, allied health, podiatric, osteopathic, and dental education and training protocols.

Requires the Director to: (1) establish medical simulation centers of excellence; (2) promote innovation by conducting and supporting research on complex or challenging medical simulation and interdisciplinary simulation technologies and developing an electronic clearinghouse of such technologies; and (3) award grants for purchasing, incorporating, and deploying such technologies for training of physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and qualified students. 

Establishes within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) the Federal Medical Simulation Coordinating Council. Requires the Director to establish an advisory panel to make recommendations on how to structure programs established by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-06
text: Introduced in House