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Veteran Home Equity Conversion Mortgage Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2475
Sponsor: Rep. Michaud, Michael H. [D-ME-2]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative fees
Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Home equity conversion
Housing and Community Development
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgages
Secondary mortgage market
Social Welfare
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Veteran Home Equity Conversation [
sic
] Mortgage Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to guarantee any home equity conversion mortgage (mortgage) made to an elderly (62 or older) veteran homeowner, as long as the Secretary determines that the mortgage: (1) is likely to improve the financial situation or otherwise meet the special needs of the homeowner; (2) will include safeguards to offset special risks associated with such a mortgage; and (3) has appropriate terms to ensure its acceptance in the secondary mortgage market.
 
Allows such mortgage to be guaranteed only if it is secured by a dwelling, farm residence, or manufactured home permanently affixed to a lot that is owned and occupied by the elderly veteran homeowner.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) guarantee any mortgage given to refinance an existing home equity conversion mortgage guaranteed by the Secretary; (2) establish a mortgage guarantee fee; and (3) waive the mortgage guarantee fee in certain circumstances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-05-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
West Valley Remediation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2476
Sponsor: Rep. Kuhl, John R. "Randy", Jr. [R-NY-29]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Energy
Environmental assessment
Federal-state relations
Freedom of information
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government paperwork
Hazardous wastes
Impact aid
Independent regulatory commissions
Land transfers
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Licenses
New York State
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear facilities
Payments in lieu of taxes
Planning
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Public meetings
Radioactive wastes
Science, Technology, Communications
Storage
Taxation
Technological innovations
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation of hazardous substances

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
West Valley Remediation Act of 2007 - Expresses the intent of Congress that the federal government should achieve complete remediation of all radioactive, solid, and hazardous waste contamination at the Western New York Nuclear Service Center in West Valley, New York.

States that this Act: (1) establishes exclusive federal responsibility for the complete remediation of the Center; and (2) replaces and supersedes the West Valley Demonstration Project Act.

Directs the Secretary of Energy to employ the best current technologies and develop new state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies to complete remediation of the Center, including: (1) decontamination and decommissioning; (2) transportation of high level radioactive waste to a federal repository for permanent disposal; and (3) disposal of low level radioactive and transuranic waste.

Directs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to regulate the remediation of radioactive waste and nuclear materials at the Center according to prescribed guidelines.
 
Directs the Secretary to: ( 1) prepare any environmental impact statement for decommissioning or long-term stewardship of the Center in cooperation with the NRC and federal and state agencies; (2) assume exclusive use and possession of the entire Center; (3) take title to land or facilities at the Center that have not been approved by the NRC for release for unrestricted use; and (4) take title to radioactive and nonradioactive wastes and materials located at the Center.
 
Repeals the West Valley Demonstration Project Act upon assumption by the Secretary of exclusive use and possession of the entire Center.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
State Child Well-Being Research Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2477
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aid to dependent children
Cash welfare block grants
Child health
Child welfare
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health surveys
Social surveys
Sociological research

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
State Child Well-Being Research Act of 2007 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop comprehensive indicators to assess child well-being in each state. 
 
Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory panel to make recommendations regarding the appropriate measures and statistical tools necessary for making such assessment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women's Services Act

Bill: 110-hr-2478
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Abortion
Administrative procedure
Deceptive advertising
Federal Trade Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women's Services Act - Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to: (1) promulgate rules prohibiting, as unfair and deceptive acts or practices, persons from advertising with the intent to deceptively create the impression that such persons provide abortion services; and (2) enforce violations of such rules as unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1148)
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Child Care Services Act

Bill: 110-hr-2479
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Building construction
Buildings
Congress
Congressional committees (House)
Congressional committees (Senate)
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Day care
Disaster relief
Families
Government Operations and Politics
House Homeland Security
Maintenance and repair
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Emergency Child Care Services Act - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to include: (1) technical advice and assistance for emergency child care services among the types of assistance federal agencies may provide, at the President's direction, to meet immediate threats to life and property resulting from a major disaster; (2) private facilities that provide emergency child care among those facilities damaged by a major disaster to which the President may make contributions; and (3) the House and Senate homeland security committees among those committees that the President shall notify before making any contribution exceeding $20 million for the repair, restoration, reconstruction, or replacement of a public or private facility damaged or destroyed by a major disaster. Defines &quot;emergency child care.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-06
text: For Further Action See Page 5 of House Report 110-425 for H.R. 3495.
action_date: 2007-05-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2007-05-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1169-1170)
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
Gas Price Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2480
Sponsor: Rep. Hill, Baron P. [D-IN-9]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Commerce
Compressed natural gas
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional investigations
Congressional reorganization
Congressional reporting requirements
Depreciation and amortization
Diesel motor
Economics and Public Finance
Energy prices
Excise tax
Federal advisory bodies
Government trust funds
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Tax rates
Tax refunds
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Gas Price Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to suspend certain federal motor fuel excise taxes until the average price of unleaded regular gasoline is less than $3.00 per gallon for a period of six consecutive months (suspension period). Provides for adjustments to such excise taxes for floor stocks of motor fuels held by dealers prior to or after the suspension period.

Repeals provisions allowing a taxpayer election to expense the cost of qualified refinery property. Transfers to the Highway Trust Fund increased tax revenues resulting from such repeal.

Requires the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to monitor gasoline prices in the United States and to report to Congress on its findings.

Requires the Speaker of the House of Representatives to establish a Commission on Gas Price Relief to study the causes of high oil prices. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-05-24
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: 2007-05-24
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: 2007-05-24
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: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
Fuel Efficiency Encouragement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2481
Sponsor: Rep. Hill, Baron P. [D-IN-9]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Automobile industry
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Electric vehicles
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Fuel consumption
Income tax
Natural gas vehicles
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Fuel Efficiency Encouragement Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the limitation on the number of new qualified hybrid and advanced lean-burn technology vehicles eligible for the alternative motor vehicle tax credit; and (2) provide a tax credit for manufacturing new qualified hybrid motor vehicles.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
Mississippi River Special Resource Study Act

Bill: 110-hr-2482
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Arkansas
Commemorations
Congressional reporting requirements
Endangered species
Governmental investigations
Habitat conservation
Historic sites
History
Illinois
Iowa
Kentucky
Louisiana
Minnesota
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Missouri
Nature conservation
Outdoor recreation
Sports and Recreation
Tennessee
Trails
Water Resources Development
Wildlife conservation
Wisconsin

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Mississippi River Special Resource Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study along the route of the Mississippi River in the counties contiguous to the river from its headwaters in Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico for the purpose of evaluating a range of alternatives for protecting and interpreting the resources along the route, including alternatives for potential addition of all or portions of the route to the National Trails System.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to establish new separate fee schedule areas for physicians' services in States with multiple fee schedule areas to improve Medicare physician geographic payment accuracy, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-2484
Sponsor: Rep. Farr, Sam [D-CA-17]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medical fees
Medicare
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish new separate fee schedule areas for physicians' services in states with multiple fee schedule areas to improve Medicare physician geographic payment accuracy.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, 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: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
Safety, Efficiency, and Accountability in Transportation Projects Through Public Inspection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2485
Sponsor: Rep. Filner, Bob [D-CA-51]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Bridges
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Governmental investigations
Local employees
Roads and highways
State employees
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation safety
Tunnels

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Safety, Efficiency, and Accountability in Transportation Projects Through Public Inspection Act of 2007 - Requires public employees to perform construction inspections on all surface transportation projects receiving federal funding. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2007-05-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1177-1178)
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
To provide for an additional place of holding court in the western district of Washington.

Bill: 110-hr-2487
Sponsor: Rep. Baird, Brian [D-WA-3]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: District courts
Judicial districts
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Amends the federal judicial code to declare that court in the western district of Washington shall be held at Vancouver (as well as the current locations at Bellingham, Seattle, and Tacoma).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the rate of tax on distilled spirits to its pre-1985 level.

Bill: 110-hr-2488
Sponsor: Rep. Berkley, Shelley [D-NV-1]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alcohol tax
Budget surpluses
Economics and Public Finance
Federal budgets
Government trust funds
Social Welfare
Social security finance
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the tax rate on distilled spirits.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
Genocide Accountability Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2489
Sponsor: Rep. Berman, Howard L. [D-CA-28]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aliens
Criminal aliens
Genocide
Immigration
International Affairs
Prosecution
Statelessness

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Genocide Accountability Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code allow the prosecution of acts constituting genocide committed by an alleged offender who is: (1) an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States; (2) a stateless person whose habitual residence is in the United States; or (3) brought into, or found in, the United States, even if the offense occurred outside the United States.

action_date: 2007-12-04
text: 

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

Genocide Accountability Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code allow the prosecution of acts constituting genocide committed by an alleged offender who is: (1) an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence in the United States; (2) a stateless person whose habitual residence is in the United States; or (3) brought into, or found in, the United States, even if the offense occurred outside the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-04
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 292.
action_date: 2007-12-04
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 110-468.
action_date: 2007-12-04
text: Reported by the Committee on Judiciary. H. Rept. 110-468.
action_date: 2007-11-07
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2007-11-07
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2007-11-01
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat charitable remainder pet trusts in a manner similar to charitable remainder annuity trusts.

Bill: 110-hr-2491
Sponsor: Rep. Blumenauer, Earl [D-OR-3]
Introduced: 2007-05-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Animals
Annuities
Charitable contributions
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Pets
Tax deductions
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the tax treatment of a charitable remainder pet trust as a charitable remainder annuity trust. Defines &quot;charitable remainder pet trust&quot; as a trust which pays a specified annual amount (for a maximum term of 20 years) for the care of domesticated companion animals living at the time of creation of the trust.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1147-1148)
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-24
text: Introduced in House