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International Nuclear Fuel for Peace and Nonproliferation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1700
Sponsor: Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA]
Introduced: 2007-06-26 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Energy
Energy supplies
Environmental Protection
Europe
Export controls
Foreign Trade and International Finance
France
Germany
Government Operations and Politics
International agencies
International control of nuclear power
Netherlands
Nuclear energy
Nuclear exports
Nuclear fuels
Nuclear nonproliferation
Nuclear security measures
President and foreign policy
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reactor fuel reprocessing
Russia
Science, Technology, Communications
State-sponsored terrorism
Technology transfer
Terrorism
United Kingdom
Uranium
Uranium enrichment

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: 
International Nuclear Fuel for Peace and Nonproliferation Act of 2007 - States that it is U.S. policy to support the establishment of an international regime for the assured supply of nuclear fuel for peaceful means under multilateral authority, such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). 
 
Authorizes the President to make grant basis contributions to the IAEA for an international nuclear fuel bank to maintain a low-enriched uranium reserve of reactor fuel for eligible countries. Requires the President, prior to making such contributions, to certify to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations that: (1) the IAEA has received specified monetary pledges for the international nuclear fuel bank; (2) the bank will be established in a non-nuclear weapon state under IAEA oversight; and (3) the bank will provide nuclear reactor fuel only to a country that is in full compliance with IAEA and other safeguards, agrees to use the nuclear reactor fuel in accordance with IAEA safeguards, does not operate uranium enrichment or spent-fuel reprocessing facilities, and is not a state sponsor of terrorism.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Employer Work Incentive Act for Individuals with Severe Disabilities

Bill: 110-s-1702
Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2007-06-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Data banks
Disabled
Employee health benefits
Employment of the disabled
Finance and Financial Sector
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Government publicity
Health
Health insurance
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Law
Minimum wages
Nonprofit organizations
Office of Management and Budget
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: 
Employer Work Incentive Act for Individuals with Severe Disabilities - Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to require the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy to establish, annually, a government-wide target for procurement contracts awarded to businesses that employ individuals with severe disabilities. Requires such target to be established at not less than 2.5% of the total value of all prime contract procurements for each fiscal year.

Directs: (1) each executive agency to have an annual procurement target that presents the maximum practicable opportunity for businesses that employ individuals with severe disabilities to participate in the performance of agency contracts; (2) the Administrator to ensure that the cumulative agency targets meet or exceed the annual targets; (3) the Administrator to work with the Administrator of General Services to establish and maintain a database of eligible entities that qualify as businesses that employ such individuals; and (4) the Administrator to promulgate regulations providing that the participation of such businesses shall be an evaluation factor in all contracts awarded by executive agencies. 

Provides that the failure of a business that is awarded a contract to meet the employment criteria within one year shall result in contract termination, unless a one-time waiver is approved for good cause.

Makes the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training responsible for obtaining input from agencies, individuals, and organizations regarding the effectiveness, outreach, utilization, and advancement of the goals and purposes of the employment and contracting program.

Requires the Secretary of Labor to utilize existing Regional Assistance Centers to provide assistance to businesses in qualifying for the evaluation factor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8613)
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Introduced in Senate
First Higher Education Extension Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1704
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-06-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Authorization
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Scholarships
Student aid
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: 
First Higher Education Extension Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Extension Act of 2005 to extend the programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 through July 31, 2007.

action_date: 2007-06-27
text: 

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

 
First Higher Education Extension Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Extension Act of 2005 to extend the programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 through July 31, 2007.

action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 

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

 
First Higher Education Extension Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Extension Act of 2005 to extend the programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 through July 31, 2007.

action_date: 2007-07-03
text: 

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

 
First Higher Education Extension Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Extension Act of 2005 to extend the programs under the Higher Education Act of 1965 through July 31, 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-03
text: Became Public Law No: 110-44.
action_date: 2007-07-03
text: Became Public Law No: 110-44.
action_date: 2007-07-03
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2007-07-03
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2007-07-02
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2007-07-02
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Cleared for White House.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: On passage Passed without objection. (text: CR H7347)
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.(text: CR H7347)
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H7347)
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Mr. Bishop (NY) asked unanimous consent to take from the Speaker's table and consider.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Held at the desk.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S8573; text as passed Senate: CR S8573)
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.(consideration: CR S8573; text as passed Senate: CR S8573)
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Introduced in Senate

Enacted as: number: 110-44
Nuclear Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1705
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-06-27 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Arms control agreements
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Energy
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Fissionable materials
Government Operations and Politics
International control of nuclear power
International cooperation
Military research
Nuclear facilities
Nuclear security measures
Nuclear terrorism
Nuclear weapons
President and foreign policy
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Terrorism
Uranium enrichment

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: 
Nuclear Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress: (1) that the President should make the prevention of a nuclear terrorist attack on the United States of the highest priority; and (2) regarding appropriate steps to prevent nuclear terrorism.

Directs the President to designate an individual to serve in the Executive Office of the President as the Senior Advisor to the President for the Prevention of Nuclear Terrorism. 

States as U.S. policy that all possible steps be taken to ensure that all nuclear weapons and formula quantities of strategic special nuclear materials are secure and accounted for, and that all formula quantities of strategic special nuclear material are eliminated or secure and accounted for to a level sufficient to defeat terrorist and criminal threats. Directs the President to seek an international agreement on a global implementing standard for such policy.

Requires an annual report from the President to Congress on the security of formula quantities of strategic special nuclear material.

Authorizes appropriations for: (1) removal of highly enriched uranium; (2) technical nuclear forensics research and development; (3) conversion of highly enriched uranium; and (4) the International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) Office of Nuclear Security.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Wheat Counter-Cyclical Payments Enhancement Act

Bill: 110-s-1706
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2007-06-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural prices
Agricultural subsidies
Wheat

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: 
Wheat Counter-Cyclical Payments Enhancement Act - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to consider national average market price variations for different classes of wheat when determining wheat producer eligibility for 2007 counter-cyclical payments.
 
 States that in calculating a separate effective price for a class of wheat the effective price shall equal the sum of: (1) the higher of the national average market price received by producers during the 12-month marketing year, or the national average loan rate during that period; and (2) the direct wheat payment rate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to reduce the duty on certain golf club components.

Bill: 110-s-1707
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-06-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to reduce the duty on golf club driver heads.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Lyme and Tick-Borne Disease Prevention, Education, and Research Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1708
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2007-06-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Bacterial diseases
Communication in medicine
Communication in science
Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Education
Epidemiology
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health education
Health surveys
Higher education
Lyme disease
Medical education
Medical laboratories
Medical research
Medical tests
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: 
Lyme and Tick-borne Disease Prevention, Education, and Research Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the Tick-Borne Diseases Advisory Committee. Requires the Committee to advise the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for Health regarding how officials can: (1) ensure interagency coordination and communication and minimize overlap regarding efforts to address tick-borne diseases; (2) identify opportunities to coordinate efforts with other federal agencies and private organizations addressing such diseases; (3) ensure interagency coordination and communication with constituency groups; (4) ensure that a broad spectrum of scientific viewpoints is represented in public heath policy decisions and that information disseminated to the public and physicians is balanced; and (5) advise relevant federal agencies on priorities related to Lyme and tick-borne diseases.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the appropriate federal officials, to provide for the coordination of all federal programs and activities related to Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, including: (1) developing sensitive and accurate diagnostic tools and tests, (2) improving the efficient utilization of diagnostic testing currently available; (3) accurately determining the prevalence of such diseases; (4) evaluating the feasibility of creating a national uniform reporting system; (5) providing and promoting access to a clearinghouse of information on such diseases; (6) increasing public education related to such diseases; (7) creating a physician education program; (8) establishing epidemiological research objectives to determine the long term course of illness for Lyme disease; and (9) determining the effectiveness of different treatment modalities by establishing treatment outcome objectives


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Introduced in Senate
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1709
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2007-06-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Authorization
Black history
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Minorities
Recruiting of employees
Slavery

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: 
National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Amends the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Act of 1998 to: (1) direct the Secretary of the Interior to appoint at least eight full-time equivalent staff; and (2) revise funding provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-266.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8613-8614)
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Drug Sentencing Reform and Cocaine Kingpin Trafficking Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1711
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2007-06-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alcoholism
Cocaine
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Crack (Drug)
Criminal liability
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Drug law enforcement
Drug traffic
Economics and Public Finance
Exports
Federal aid to law enforcement
Fines (Penalties)
Firearms
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Imports
Law
Mandatory sentences
Prosecution
Rehabilitation of criminals
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sentencing guidelines
U.S. Sentencing Commission
Violence
Weapons

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: 
Drug Sentencing Reform and Cocaine Kingpin Trafficking Act of 2007 - Amends the Controlled Substances Act and the Controlled Substances Import and Export Act to increase the amount of a controlled substance or mixture containing a cocaine base (i.e., crack cocaine) required for the imposition of mandatory minimum prison terms for crack cocaine trafficking to eliminate the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine.

Eliminates the five-year mandatory minimum prison term for first-time possession of crack cocaine. 

Directs the U.S. Sentencing Commission to review and amend, if appropriate, its sentencing guidelines for trafficking in a controlled substance to reflect the use of a dangerous weapon or violence in such crime and the culpability and the role of the defendant in such crime, taking into account certain aggravating and mitigating factors. 

Directs the Attorney General to make grants to improve drug treatment to offenders in prisons, jails, and juvenile facilities. 

Authorizes the Attorney General to make grants to establish demonstration programs to reduce the use of alcohol and other drugs by substance abusers while incarcerated and until the completion of parole or court supervision. 

Increases monetary penalties for drug trafficking and for the importation and exportation of controlled substances. 

Authorizes appropriations to the Departments of Justice, the Treasury, and Homeland Security for FY2008-FY2009 for the prosecution of, and for supporting the prosecution of, high-level drug offenses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-12
text: Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs. Hearings held.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8614-8615)
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Introduced in Senate
SHINE Act

Bill: 110-s-1712
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-06-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health education
Health information systems
Health surveys
Hereditary diseases
Infants
Internet
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medical technology
Medical tests
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: 
Screening for Health of Infants and Newborns Act or the SHINE Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to develop guidelines that states may follow in reporting data from newborn screening tests.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to develop guidelines to: (1) monitor and evaluate newborn screening activities; and (2) coordinate the results of surveillance activities.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of CDC and the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, to develop a surveillance system for newborn screening.
 
Directs the Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders and Genetic Diseases in Newborns and Children to advise the Secretary on the guidelines and on monitoring and evaluating newborn screening and surveillance activities.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) direct the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of HRSA to establish a central clearinghouse of current education and family support and services information, materials, resources, research, and data on newborn screening; (2) award grants for demonstration projects that increase state capacity to screen for all of the core conditions; (3) award Hunter Kelly Newborn Screening grants for demonstration projects that develop screening tests for additional newborn conditions or develop multiple markers to increase the specificity of such tests; and (4) appoint an Interagency Grant Review Panel to select grant applications and provide oversight on the grant program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8615-8616)
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the issuance of a commemorative postage stamp in honor of Rosa Parks.

Bill: 110-s-1713
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-06-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Blacks
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights workers
Government Operations and Politics
Minorities
Postage stamps

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: 
Requires the Postmaster General to issue a commemorative postage stamp in honor of Rosa Parks. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Small Business Children's Health Education Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1714
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-06-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Access to health care
Child health
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Health insurance
Internet
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Science, Technology, Communications
Small Business Administration
Small business
Social Welfare
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: 
Small Business Children's Health Education Act of 2007 - Establishes a task force to conduct a nationwide campaign of education and outreach for small businesses regarding the availability of health care coverage for children through private insurance options, the Medicaid program, and the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) (title XXI of the Social Security Act).

Requires the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) to ensure that links to information on eligibility and enrollment requirements for the Medicaid program and SCHIP of each state are prominently displayed on the SBA website.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10880-10881)
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8617)
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S8616-8617)
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Introduced in Senate