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Idaho Land Conveyance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1803
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2007-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Idaho
Land transfers
National forests

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: 
Idaho Land Conveyance Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture (the Secretary), if the Sun Valley Company offers to convey to the Secretary specified non-federal land that is owned by the Company, to accept the offer, and on conveyance of such land, to simultaneously convey to the Company specified Forest Service land. 
 
Requires: (1) the Secretary to transfer to the Secretary of the Interior administrative jurisdiction over the non-federal land; and (2) the Secretary of the Interior to transfer to the Secretary administrative jurisdiction over specified Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land. 
 
Provides for: (1) the non-federal land to become part of BLM's Shoshone District and the boundaries of such District to be adjusted to include such land; and (2) the BLM land to become part of the Sawtooth National Forest and the boundaries to be adjusted to include the BLM land. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
FHA Loan Limit Adjustment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1805
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Apartment houses
Condominium (Housing)
Cooperative housing
Disasters
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Families
Federal aid to housing
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing for the aged
Moderate income housing
Mortgages
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Single family housing
Social Welfare
Urban affairs
Urban renewal

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: 
FHA Loan Limit Adjustment Act of 2007 - Amends the National Housing Act with respect to mortgage insurance eligibility to revise requirements for the principal amount of a mortgage loan, in part increasing the amount of a mortgage that may be insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA).
 
Repeals the requirement that certain mortgagors, before a mortgage is insured, complete a program of counseling on the responsibilities and financial management involved in homeownership.
 
Increases high-cost area and project-based additional mortgage loan limits for FHA-insured mortgages for: (1) rental housing; (2) cooperative housing; (3) rehabilitation and neighborhood conservation housing insurance; (4) moderate income and displaced family housing; (5) housing for the elderly; and (6) condominiums. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Judicial Powers Restoration Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1806
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2007-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Caribbean area
Cuba
Cubans
Department of the Treasury
Expropriation
Government Operations and Politics
Intellectual property
International Affairs
Jurisdiction
Latin America
Trademarks

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: 
Judicial Powers Restoration Act of 2007 - Amends the Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 to repeal the prohibition against U.S. courts recognizing, enforcing, or otherwise validating any assertion of rights by a designated Cuban national of a mark, trade name, or commercial name that was used in connection with a business or assets that were confiscated by the Cuban government.

Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to issue regulations as necessary to repeal such provisions, including removing or revoking any applicable prohibition on transactions or payments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR 7/18/2007 S9477)
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 7/18/2007 S9477)
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Weather Mitigation Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1807
Sponsor: Sen. Hutchison, Kay Bailey [R-TX]
Introduced: 2007-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
National Science Foundation
Remote sensing
Research and development
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Weather
Weather forecasting

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: 
Weather Mitigation Research and Development Policy Authorization Act of 2007 - Establishes in the National Science Foundation (NSF) the Weather Mitigation Advisory and Research Board to establish and coordinate the national research and development program on weather mitigation described in this Act. Requires the Executive Director of the Board to submit a plan for the establishment and coordination of the Program. 
 
Requires the Board to promote and fund research and development (R&D), studies, and investigations with respect to: (1) improved forecast and decisionmaking technologies for weather mitigation operations, including tailored computer workstations and software and new observation systems with remote sensors; and (2) assessments and evaluations of the efficacy of weather mitigation. 
 
Authorizes the Board to establish a grant program for the awarding of grants to eligible entities (state agencies, institutions of higher education, and nonprofits that have expertise in the field of weather mitigation and experience working with state agencies) for R&D projects that pertain to weather mitigation. Permits a grant recipient to only use the grant for a R&D project that: (1) pertains to weather mitigation; and (2) was in operation on the day before the grant was awarded. 
 
Requires the submission of annual reports to the President and Congress on the activities conducted pursuant to this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Denali National Park and Alaska Railroad Land Exchange Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1808
Sponsor: Sen. Murkowski, Lisa [R-AK]
Introduced: 2007-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alaska
Easements
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Land transfers
Law
National parks
Railroads
Surveying
Transportation and Public Works
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: 
Denali National Park and Alaska Railroad Land Exchange Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey to the Alaska Railroad certain federal land within the boundary of Denali National Park in Alaska in exchange for certain non-federal land composed of an exclusive-use easement owned by the Railroad within the Park, including the former Denali Park Station Wye track, for use for turning railroad trains around near Denali Park Station. 
 
Requires the Alaska Railroad to pay the costs of any such land exchange, including the costs of compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the costs of land surveys, and other reasonable costs necessary to carry out the exchange.
 
Requires the Secretary and the Railroad to carry out the land exchange under this Act not later than five years after enactment of this Act.


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: 2007-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Long-Term Care Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1809
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefit plans
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Long-term care insurance
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
Long-Term Care Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an exclusion from gross income of distributions from individual retirement accounts and other employee benefit plans used to pay long-term care insurance premiums.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Lead Poisoning Reduction Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1811
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child health
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Contractors
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employee training
Environmental Protection Agency
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Governmental investigations
Health
Labor and Employment
Law
Lead poisoning
Licenses
Maintenance and repair
Paints and varnishes
Preschool education
School buildings
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
Lead Poisoning Reduction Act of 2007 - Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to establish a Select Group on Lead Exposure. Requires the Group to: (1) conduct a study of state, tribal, and local programs to protect children from exposure to lead at child-occupied facilities constructed before January 1, 1978; (2) develop baseline standards such programs must meet to receive a grant under this Act; and (3) develop a model program to protect children from exposure to lead at such facilities that can be adopted by state, local, and tribal governments.
 
Requires the model program to meet or exceed standards that require facilities to be notified as soon as practicable after a child is diagnosed with lead poisoning and to be tested for the presence of lead upon receiving such notification.
 
Directs the Administrator to: (1) establish a program to provide grants to assist such facilities in carrying out activities to protect children from lead exposure; (2) promulgate regulations requiring such facilities to test applicable exposure pathways for lead, prohibiting states and Indian tribes from issuing a license to such facilities until the testing is complete and the exposure to lead is eliminated, and requiring all child-occupied facilities to eliminate the risk of exposure to lead through applicable exposure pathways; and (3) apply regulations governing lead-based paint activities to contractors and workers engaged in the renovation, remodeling, or painting of such facilitates and to establish a program to provide information and training about those activities to them.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 7/18/2007 S9498-9499)
Mentoring America's Children Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1812
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alaska
Colleges
Commerce
Community and school
Corporations
Crime and Law Enforcement
Dropouts
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational research
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Ethics
Ex-offenders
Families
Federal aid to education
Foster home care
Gangs
Hawaiians
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Indian education
Indigenous peoples
Juvenile delinquency
Mentoring
Minorities
Minority education
Native Americans
Performance measurement
School security
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Suburbs
Suicide
Violence
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
Mentoring America's Children Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to make miscellaneous changes to the Mentoring grant program under title IV that include: (1) improvement of school connectedness and character education among mentoring's purposes; (2) corporations, universities, foster care group homes, and other entities among program providers; (3) a requirement that mentors help children become responsible and successful adults; (4) foster youth, children with an incarcerated parent, suburban children in high crime areas, and children living in high gang involvement, drug use, dropout, or youth suicide areas among those most in need of mentoring; (5) children's participation in internships as a program goal; (6) mandatory information on grant applicants about plans for monitoring mentor/mentee matches and the satisfaction of grant matching requirements that increase from 10% to 50% over the three-year grant term; and (7) entities serving foster children or children living in high youth suicide areas as priority grant recipients.

Allows grantees to be considered for new grants if: (1) their prior performance was satisfactory; (2) they propose to use the new grant exclusively for expanded service to a new area or population; and (3) they are able to provide a 50% match to the new grant funds. 

Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) provide training and technical assistance to, and track and evaluate the performance of, grantees; and (2) arrange for research on school-based mentoring, the results of which are to be provided to the mentoring community.

 Includes mentoring in ESEA programs for: (1) Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaskan Native education; (2) the transitioning of youth offenders into education; and (3) school violence and drug abuse prevention.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 7/18/2007 S9499)
A bill to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to provide individuals with an opportunity to participate in the financing or ownership of local biorefineries.

Bill: 110-s-1813
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Agricultural cooperatives
Agriculture and Food
Biomass energy
Economics and Public Finance
Electric power production
Energy facilities
Farmers
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Grants-in-aid
Housing and Community Development
Investments
Rural economic development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to require that a biorefinery recipient of federal assistance provide eligible purchasers with an opportunity to participate in the financing or ownership of the biorefinery.

Defines an eligible purchaser as: (1) a natural person with a principal residence located not more than 50 miles from the biorefinery; or (2) a farmer or rancher cooperative.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Information Privacy and Security Act

Bill: 110-s-1814
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Communication in medicine
Confidential communications
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Justice
English language
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Health information systems
Injunctions
Law
Legal fees
Medical records
Medical research
Patients' rights
Punitive damages
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Whistle blowing

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
Health Information Privacy and Security Act - Requires a person who holds, uses, or discloses protected health information to: (1) permit an individual who is the subject of such information to inspect and copy the information; (2) establish safeguards and procedures to ensure the privacy, confidentiality, security, accuracy, and integrity of such information; and (3) establish and maintain a record of each protected health information disclosure.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to support demonstration projects to improve the communication of information pertaining to health privacy rights with individuals with limited English proficiency and limited health literacy.

Prohibits any person from disclosing, accessing, or using protected health information, except as authorized under this Act. 

Requires the Secretary to develop and disseminate model written authorizations for the disclosure of such information.

Provides for notice to an individual of a security breach with regard to protected health information.

Sets forth purposes under which disclosure is permitted, including for public health, health oversight, and law enforcement purposes.

Directs the Secretary to designate the Office of Health Information Privacy to: (1) receive and investigate complaints of alleged violations of this Act; (2) provide guidance to health care providers and other relevant individuals concerning the interpretation and implementation of privacy protections; and (3) provide recommendations concerning improvements in the privacy and security of protected health information and concerning medical privacy research needs.

Requires the Secretary to establish and implement standards for health information technology products. 

Sets forth criminal and civil penalties for knowing and intentional violations of this Act.

Provides that this Act does not preempt federal or state laws or regulations that provide greater protections.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S9500-9513)
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 7/18/2007 S9499-9500)
All-Terrain Vehicle Standards and Compliance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1815
Sponsor: Sen. Stevens, Ted [R-AK]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: All terrain vehicles
Consumer education
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Import restrictions
Imports
Labeling
Motor vehicle safety
Product safety
Standards
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
All-Terrain Vehicle Standards and Compliance Act of 2007 - Requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to issue a consumer product safety standard for all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) that is, subject to exception, identical to a specified publication by the American National Standards Institute/Specialty Vehicle Institute of America. Makes specified provisions of the Consumer Product Safety Act and other federal law inapplicable to that issuance.
 
Applies the standard to ATVs manufactured or imported after the standard is published. Allows ATVs that comply with the standard to incorporate characteristics or components not covered by the standard.
 
Requires each ATV manufacturer or importer to submit an action plan to the CPSC for approval and to comply with an approved plan.
 
Prohibits the importation or distribution of three-wheeled ATVs until a mandatory consumer product safety standard applicable to such vehicles is in effect.
 
Requires each ATV to which the standard applies to bear a label certifying compliance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to ensure proper administration of the discharge of members of the Armed Forces for personality disorder, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-1817
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-07-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Health
Medical tests
Mental health
Military discharges
Military medicine
Psychiatry

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-19
text: 
Prohibits the Secretary of a military department from discharging due to a personality disorder a member of the Armed Forces who has served on active duty in a combat zone until the later of the date of: (1) completion by the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) of a review of Department of Defense (DOD) policies and procedures for diagnosing such a disorder; (2) issuance by the Secretary of policies and procedures to ensure the appropriate use of such a discharge; (3) establishment by the Secretary of an independent review board for personality disorder discharges; (4) submittal by the Secretary of a report to Congress on progress in implementing the requirements under (1) through (3), above; or (5) the date that is 45 days after the date of the submission of the report referred to in (4), which period shall permit Congress to consider the report.
 
Provides an exception to such requirement in the case of a member who, during recruitment for or enlistment in the Armed Forces, provided false or misleading information, or omitted providing information about past criminal behavior, that is material to a discharge for personality disorder.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-07-19
text: Introduced in Senate