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A bill to authorize the National Guard to provide support for the border control activities of the United States Customs and Border Protection of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-2716
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2008-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Border patrols
Immigration
International Affairs
Latin America
Mexico
National Guard

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: 
Provides for continued National Guard support for border control activities along the U.S.- Mexico border under Operation Jump Start until operational control of such border has been achieved.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to provide funding to a state that submits to the Secretary of State a state border control activities plan that meets certain requirements. Limits the number of National Guard that may be so deployed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 601.
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1599)
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Effective Immigration Enforcement Partnerships Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-2717
Sponsor: Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA]
Introduced: 2008-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Arrest
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Civil rights enforcement
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Damages
Data banks
Detention of persons
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Federal-state relations
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government publications
Identification of criminals
Illegal aliens
Imprisonment
Law
Law enforcement officers
Police training
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: 
 Effective Immigration Enforcement Partnerships Act of 2008 - States that state and local law enforcement personnel are fully authorized in the normal course of their duties to investigate, apprehend, or transfer to federal custody aliens in the United States (including interstate transportation of such aliens to detention centers) in order to assist in the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws. 
 
Provides for the listing of immigration violators in the National Crime Information Center database. 
 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to illegal aliens apprehended by state or local authorities to provide for: (1) federal custody upon state or local enforcement entity request; and (2) state or local compensation for related incarceration and transportation costs. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish immigration-related training for state and local personnel. 
 
Provides: (1) personal liability immunity to the same extent as corresponding federal immunity for state or local personnel enforcing immigration laws within the scope of their duties; and (2) civil rights money damage immunity for state or local agencies enforcing immigration laws unless their personnel violated criminal law in such enforcement.
 

 
Authorizes a state or locality to: (1) detain an illegal alien after completion of such alien's state prison sentence for up to 14 days to facilitate federal transfer; and (2) issue a detainer that would allow the detention of aliens who have served such a sentence until taken into federal custody. 
 
States that nothing in this Act may be construed to require state or local law enforcement personnel to: (1) report the identity of a victim of, or a witness to, a criminal offense for immigration enforcement purposes; (2) arrest such victim or witness for an immigration violation; or (3) enforce U.S. immigration laws. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 602.
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to withhold 10 percent of the Federal funding apportioned for highway construction and maintenance from States that issue driver's licenses to individuals without verifying the legal status of such individuals.

Bill: 110-s-2718
Sponsor: Sen. Barrasso, John [R-WY]
Introduced: 2008-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Driver licenses
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Highway finance
Highway maintenance
Identification devices
Illegal aliens
Immigration
Infrastructure
Road construction
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Transportation to withhold 10% of a state's apportionment of certain federal-aid highways funds in any fiscal year after FY2009 if such state does not require verifiable evidence of lawful presence in the United States or its territories from each applicant for a driver's license or personal identification card issued by the state. Grandfathers states that have such a requirement in effect before the later of: (1) October 1, 2009; or (2) 10 days after the end of the first session the state's legislature convenes after enactment of this Act.
 
Redistributes withheld funds to states that satisfy the requirements of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 603.
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide that Executive Order 13166 shall have no force or effect, and to prohibit the use of funds for certain purposes.

Bill: 110-s-2719
Sponsor: Sen. Dole, Elizabeth [R-NC]
Introduced: 2008-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Appropriations
Congress
Congressional veto
Economics and Public Finance
English language
Executive orders
Federal aid programs
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Language and languages
Public assistance programs
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: 
Declares Executive Order 13166, "Improving Access to Services for Persons with Limited English Proficiency," to be null and void. 
 
Prohibits the use of funds for the promulgation or enforcement of an executive order that creates an entitlement to services provided in a language other than English.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 604.
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to withhold Federal financial assistance from each country that denies or unreasonably delays the acceptance of nationals of such country who have been ordered removed from the United States and to prohibit the issuance of visas to nationals of such country.

Bill: 110-s-2720
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2008-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Civil actions and liability
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Deportation
Economic assistance
International Affairs
Law
Parties to actions
Repatriation
Victims of crimes
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: 
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit funds from being dispersed to a country that denies or unreasonably delays the acceptance of its citizens, nationals, or residents who have been ordered removed under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) from the United States.
 
Amends INA to prohibit visa issuance to citizens, nationals, or residents of such country unless: (1) the country is in full compliance with travel document requirements under this Act; or (2) Congress waives such prohibition.
 
Requires the Secretary of Homeland Security to report to Congress every three months listing countries that deny or delay such repatriation. Imposes assistance and visa prohibitions on a listed country that does not issue appropriate travel documents for such aliens.
 
Authorizes presidential waiver of such assistance and visa prohibitions.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 605.
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Strengthening American Citizenship Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2721
Sponsor: Sen. Alexander, Lamar [R-TN]
Introduced: 2008-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Allegiance
Awards, medals, prizes
Citizenship
Civics education
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Homeland Security
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Embassies
English language
Federal aid to education
Foundations
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
History
Immigrant education
Immigrants
International Affairs
Law
Naturalization
Oaths
Residence requirements
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: 
Strengthening American Citizenship Act of 2007 [
sic
] - Directs the Chief of the Office of Citizenship of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide grants (not to exceed $500) to assist legal U.S. residents who declare an intent to apply for citizenship in the United States to meet naturalization requirements. 

Provides such grants to an accredited institution of higher education or other qualified educational institution for tuition, fees, books, and other educational resources required by the English language course in which the legal resident is enrolled. 

Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) to provide that a legal U.S. resident who demonstrates English fluency will satisfy the residency requirement upon the completion of four (currently, five years) years of continuous U.S. legal residency.

Directs the Secretary of DHS to: (1) establish an American citizenship grant program for qualified entities to provide civics, history, and English classes to promote the patriotic integration of prospective citizens; and (2) implement a strategy to enhance public awareness of naturalization ceremonies. 

Authorizes the Secretary to establish the United States Citizenship Foundation to support the functions of the Office of Citizenship.

Amends INA to set forth a new oath of allegiance. Directs the Secretary to: (1) incorporate a knowledge and understanding of the oath of allegiance into the history and government citizenship test; and (2) notify the embassy of the country of which a new citizen was a citizen or subject that such citizen has renounced allegiance to that foreign country and sworn allegiance to the United States. 

Establishes a new citizens award program to recognize citizens who: (1) have made an outstanding contribution to the United States; and (2) were naturalized during the 10-year period ending on the date of such recognition.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 606.
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Safe Roads Enhancement Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-2722
Sponsor: Sen. Dole, Elizabeth [R-NC]
Introduced: 2008-03-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Crime and Law Enforcement
Deportation
Drug abuse
Drunk driving
Government Operations and Politics
Recidivists
State laws
Traffic accidents and safety
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: 
Safe Roads Enhancement Act of 2008 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include within the definition of &quot;aggravated felony&quot; a third conviction for driving while intoxicated (including any conviction for driving while under the influence of, or impaired by, alcohol or drugs), without regard to whether the conviction is classified as a misdemeanor or felony under state law.
 
Makes inadmissible or deportable an alien who has been convicted of driving while intoxicated (including any conviction for driving while under the influence of, or impaired by, alcohol or drugs), without regard to whether the conviction is classified as a misdemeanor or felony under state law, for which the term of imprisonment is at least one year.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 607.
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2008-03-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Deamonte Driver Dental Care Access Improvement Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-2723
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2008-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Child health
Community health services
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Dental care
Dentistry
Dentists
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Health education
Health insurance
Health surveys
Higher education
Income tax
Managed care
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical fees
Medically uninsured
Paramedical personnel
Poor children
Pregnant women
Preventive medicine
Quality of care
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Taxation
Telemedicine
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: 
Deamonte Driver Dental Care Access Improvement Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants to schools of dentistry and hospitals with accredited training programs in pediatric dentistry.
 
Amends title V (Maternal and Child Health Services) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require the Secretary to provide for a pilot program to increase access to dental care for underserved populations through the use of new allied dental health professionals.
 
Requires the Secretary to award grants to federally qualified health centers to expand and improve the provision of dental services to medically underserved populations.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to develop, implement, and evaluate public health and clinical strategies to prevent and manage early childhood caries.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business tax credit for a portion of compensation received for providing dental services under SSA titles XIX (Medicaid) or XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) or from an uninsured individual.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to conduct a public education and awareness campaign on preventing, controlling, and ultimately eliminating early childhood caries.
 
Amends SSA titles XIX and XXI to expand reporting requirements with respect to children's dental services.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to study payment rates for dental services provided to individuals under Medicaid or SCHIP.
 
Requires the Secretary to ensure the inclusion of dental health prevention and promotion activities within existing prenatal and maternal child health programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
CJ's Home Protection Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-2724
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2008-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Building construction
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Hurricanes
Law
Liability (Law)
Mobile homes
Prefabricated buildings
Product safety
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Radio
Science, Technology, Communications
Standards
Tornadoes
Weather forecasting

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: 
CJ's Home Protection Act of 2008 - Amends the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974 to revise federal standards for manufactured homes (other than one affixed to a permanent foundation) to require each such home to be installed with a weather radio: (1) capable of broadcasting emergency information relating to local weather conditions; (2) equipped with a tone alarm and Specific Alert Message Encoding, or SAME technology; and (3) compliant with the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) Standard 2009-A Performance Specification for Public Alert Receivers (or its current revision).
 

 

 
Shields from common law civil liability: (1) manufacturers, installers, or retailers of manufactured homes for any aspect of the installation, furnishing, function, operation, performance, capabilities, or utilization of such a weather radio; and (2) the operator, owner, or employee of a manufactured home community, or the home manufacturer, with respect to the functionality of such a radio owing to any reminder, assistance, or instructions the community operator provides.
 
Exempts modular homes from such installation standards.
 
Requires the consensus committee established under such Act to develop and submit to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development a proposed standard for installed weather radios.
 
Requires the Secretary to study and report to specified congressional committees on conditioning the applicability of the weather radio installation requirement on the geographic location at which a manufactured home is placed.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6892 Main Street in Gloucester, Virginia, as the "Congresswoman Jo Ann S. Davis Post Office".

Bill: 110-s-2725
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, John [R-VA]
Introduced: 2008-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Government Operations and Politics
House of Representatives
Names
Postal facilities
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 6892 Main Street in Gloucester, Virginia, as the "Congresswoman Jo Ann S. Davis Post Office."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-05-12
text: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S4046)
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 680.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2008-03-28
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1705)
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Bonus TEFAP Assistance Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-2726
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2008-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural surpluses
Food relief

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: 
Bonus TEFAP Assistance Act of 2008 - Amends the Emergency Food Assistance Act of 1983 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide assistance for the costs of intrastate transportation, storage, and distribution of bonus commodities provided to states and food assistance agencies under the emergency food assistance program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1706)
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1705-1706)
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate
Preserving Access to Hospice (PATH) Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-2727
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2008-03-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Governmental investigations
Medical fees
Medicare
Quality of care
Social Welfare
Terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: 
Preserving Access to Hospice (PATH) Act of 2008 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for a temporary moratorium, from November 1, 2005, through October 31, 2008, on enforcement of the hospice cap amount.
 
Directs the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MEDPAC) to study and report on: (1) the resource effectiveness and quality of hospice care as a substitute benefit for other acute care alternatives under Medicare; (2) the optimal median and average length of stay in hospice care under Medicare; (3) the reasons for persistently low median and average length of such stays; and (4) the desirability of requiring a national coverage determination of eligibility for hospice care under Medicare.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Introduced in Senate