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Schoolchildren's Health Protection Act

Bill: 110-hr-6453
Sponsor: Rep. Lamborn, Doug [R-CO-5]
Introduced: 2008-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Contraceptives
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Health
Minors
School health programs
Secondary education

Summary:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: 
Schoolchildren's Health Protection Act - Amends the General Education Provisions Act to prohibit the provision of federal education funding to state or local educational agencies that provide unemancipated minors with postcoital emergency contraception or prescriptions for such contraception on the premises of elementary or secondary schools.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
E-Verify Extension and Expansion Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6454
Sponsor: Rep. Cannon, Chris [R-UT-3]
Introduced: 2008-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Alien labor
Data banks
Electronic data interchange
Electronic government information
Employee selection
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Labor and Employment
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: 
E-Verify Extension and Expansion Act of 2008 - Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to replace the current three employment eligibility confirmation pilot programs with two pilot programs: (1) the revised E-Verify program in all 50 states; and (2) the secure electronic employment verification system (SEEVS) in all 50 states by December 1, 2009. Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish such programs. Terminates such pilot programs not later than December 31, 2013.
 
States that the E-Verify program shall be voluntary except for: (1) the federal government; and (2) employers who have violated certain employment provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Border, Maritime, and Global Counterterrorism.
action_date: 2008-07-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Science and Technology, and Homeland Security, 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: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Science and Technology, and Homeland Security, 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: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Science and Technology, and Homeland Security, 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: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Science and Technology, and Homeland Security, 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: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Science and Technology, and Homeland Security, 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: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Encourage Initiative and Promote Self-Esteem Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6457
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2008-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Disabled
Employment of the disabled
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security eligibility
Supplemental security income program
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: 
Encourage Initiative and Promote Self-Esteem Act of 2008 - Amends titles II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) and XVI (Supplemental Security Income) of the Social Security Act to establish special rules for benefits based on waxing and waning medical conditions in qualified disabled individuals. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1429)
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Gasoline Savings and Speed Limit Reduction Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6458
Sponsor: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-12]
Introduced: 2008-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Highway finance
Speed limits
State laws
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation research

Summary:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: 
Gasoline Savings and Speed Limit Reduction Act of 2008 - Prohibits the Secretary of Transportation from approving a federal-aid highway project for a state: (1) with a maximum speed limit in excess of 60 miles per hour on any state highway (other than a highway on the National Highway System (NHS) located outside of an urbanized area), or in excess of 65 miles per hour on any such NHS highway; and (2) that has failed to certify to the Secretary that it is enforcing such national maximum speed limits.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from approving a federal-aid highway project also for a state with a speed limit on any portion of a public highway within its jurisdiction which is not uniformly applicable to all types of motor vehicles using such portion of highway, if on July 1, 2008, such highway portion had a speed limit which was uniformly applicable to all types of motor vehicles using it. Allows a lower speed limit, however, for a vehicle under a special permit based on the weight or dimension of such vehicle. Makes the requirement inapplicable, also, during any time that the condition of the highway, weather, or an accident creates a temporary hazard to the safety of traffic.
 
Requires the Secretary to transfer up to a specified annual percentage of the aggregate amount of federal-aid highway funds to state safety projects in states that fail to enforce the national maximum speed limits.
 
Directs the Secretary to arrange with the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences to study, and report to the Secretary and Congress on, the benefits of the national maximum speed limits program and the effectiveness of state enforcement of such limits.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Adoption Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-6459
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2008-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Adoption
Child welfare
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Parents

Summary:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: 
Adoption Improvement Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out a pilot program of grants to child welfare agencies to effect long-range improvements in the adoption process by increasing prospective adoptive parent access to adoption information and strengthening agency responsiveness to prospective adoptive parents.
 
Requires the Secretary also to: (1) research, through grant or contract, the successes and challenges of the programs established under the pilot program grants; and (2) include in the national annual review of child welfare agencies an examination of each state's progress regarding adoption information accessibility and agency responsiveness to prospective adoptive parents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Supporting America's Volunteer Emergency Services Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6461
Sponsor: Rep. Altmire, Jason [D-PA-4]
Introduced: 2008-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Diesel motor
Energy
Energy prices
Fire departments
Gasoline
Social Welfare
Subsidies
Transportation and Public Works
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: 
Supporting America's Volunteer Emergency Services Act of 2008 - Directs the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to determine the average annual price per gallon for gasoline and diesel fuel for each of the five Petroleum Administration for Defense Districts for 2007. Requires: (1) the average annual price per gallon to be based solely on data reported by the Energy Information Administration; and (2) that price to serve as the baseline fuel cost for each District.

Requires FEMA to reimburse a qualified volunteer fire department for 75% of the difference between: (1) the actual expenditures of the department for gasoline and diesel fuel for a year; and (2) the amount that such expenditures would have been using the baseline fuel costs. 

Directs each qualified volunteer fire department seeking reimbursement to submit to the FEMA at the end of each year: (1) all of its receipts and bills of sales documenting the amounts of gasoline and diesel fuel purchased during that year; and (2) a sum total of the aggregate number of gallons and the costs of gasoline and diesel fuel purchased.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Jose Rivera Correctional Officer Protection Act

Bill: 110-hr-6462
Sponsor: Rep. Cardoza, Dennis A. [D-CA-18]
Introduced: 2008-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Correctional personnel
Department of Justice
Equipment and supplies
Federal law enforcement officers
Government Operations and Politics
Safety measures

Summary:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: 
Jose Rivera Correctional Officer Protection Act - Requires the Bureau of Prisons to: (1) provide all its correctional officers with stab-resistant personal body armor; and (2) require such officers to wear such body armor while on duty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Back on Track Act

Bill: 110-hr-6464
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2008-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Bridges
Disaster loans
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Government lending
Interest rates
Railroad engineering
Railroad finance
Railroads

Summary:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: 
Back on Track Act - Amends the Railroad Revitalization and Regulatory Reform Act of 1976 to revise interest rate and credit risk premium requirements for direct loans and loan guarantees for construction or repair of railroad bridges located in disaster areas due to flooding beginning in 2008. Extends the term of repayment of direct loans or loan guarantees from 25 years to 35 years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend the demonstration project on adjustable rate mortgages and the demonstration project on hybrid adjustable rate mortgages.

Bill: 110-hr-6465
Sponsor: Rep. Brown-Waite, Ginny [R-FL-5]
Introduced: 2008-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Mortgage interest rates
Mortgages
Veterans' loans

Summary:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: 
Extends the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) demonstration projects on the guaranteeing of veterans' adjustable rate and hybrid adjustable rate mortgage loans in a manner similar to which the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development insures such mortgages under the National Housing Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
To apply an alternative payment amount under the Medicare Program for certain graduate medical education programs established to train residents displaced by natural disasters.

Bill: 110-hr-6466
Sponsor: Rep. Cazayoux, Donald J., Jr. [D-LA-6]
Introduced: 2008-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Disaster relief
Displaced persons
Education
Emergency Management
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Hospitals
Medical education
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, for a cost reporting period beginning on or after July 1, 2005, to provide for payments of direct graduate education costs under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act in accordance with an alternative payment methodology for eligible hospitals in or adjacent to a major disaster area which have established a program to educate residents displaced from a graduate medical education (GME) program impacted by such disaster.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to terminate certain easements held by the Secretary on land owned by the Village of Caseyville, Illinois, and to terminate associated contractual arrangements with the Village.

Bill: 110-hr-6467
Sponsor: Rep. Costello, Jerry F. [D-IL-12]
Introduced: 2008-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Illinois
Land transfers

Summary:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to terminate any easement held by the Secretary on land owned by the Village of Caseyville, Illinois, and terminate associated contractual arrangements with the Village.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Putting the Brakes on Human Smuggling Act

Bill: 110-hr-6468
Sponsor: Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28]
Introduced: 2008-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Driver licenses
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Illegal aliens
Immigration
Science, Technology, Communications
Smuggling
Truck drivers
Trucks

Summary:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: 
Putting the Brakes on Human Smuggling Act - Disqualifies from operating a commercial motor vehicle any individual who uses a commercial motor vehicle to assist in the entry of illegal aliens into the United States. Requires the Secretary of Transportation to impose a lifetime disqualification from operating such a vehicle on any individual convicted under federal criminal law of assisting in such entry or in the harboring of illegal aliens.
 
Revises content requirements of the commercial driver's license information system to include whether a commercial motor vehicle operator has been temporarily or permanently disqualified from operating a commercial motor vehicle for violation of this Act.
 
Requires a state to notify the Secretary of Transportation or the operator of the information system of disqualifications, revocations, suspensions, or cancellations of licenses to operate a commercial motor vehicle because of such a violation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
River Raisin National Battlefield Act

Bill: 110-hr-6470
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2008-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Europe
Governmental investigations
History
Land transfers
Michigan
Military parks
National parks
United Kingdom
War

Summary:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: 
River Raisin National Battlefield Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, if offered by Monroe or Wayne Counties, Michigan, or other willing landowners in either county, to accept a donation of real property in either county relating to the Battles of River Raisin (during the War of 1812) on January 18 and 22, 1813, and their aftermath.

Instructs the Secretary, upon acquisition of such real property of sufficient acreage to permit efficient administration, to designate the acquired real property as a unit of the National Park System, to be known as the &quot;River Raisin National Battlefield Park.&quot;

Requires the Secretary to submit a report describing the progress made in acquiring real property under this Act and in designating the park. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-11
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2008-07-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Expanding Availability of VA Health Care Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6471
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2008-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Health
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: 
Expanding Availability of VA Health Care Act of 2008 - Makes eligible for health care under the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) patient enrollment system veterans with incomes not exceeding 150% of the maximum for treatment as a low-income family. (Currently, only veterans with incomes not exceeding the maximum for treatment as a low-income family are so eligible.) 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
Resist Offsetting with Additional Debt Act

Bill: 110-hr-6472
Sponsor: Rep. Flake, Jeff [R-AZ-6]
Introduced: 2008-07-10 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Bridges
Budget deficits
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Government trust funds
Highway finance
Rescission of appropriated funds
Road construction
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation engineering
Transportation safety

Summary:
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: 
Resist Offsetting with Additional Debt Act or the ROAD Act - Rescinds unobligated balances of certain earmark surface transportation projects under the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) (in order to eliminate the shortfall in the Highway Trust Fund (HTF)). Prohibits the transfer of funds from the General Fund of the Treasury to the HTF.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that state transportation departments should consider implementing certain projects under the highway bridge program and the surface transportation program that improve transportation safety.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2008-07-10
text: Referred to the Committee on Appropriations, 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: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-07-10
text: Introduced in House