hyperdemocracy/usc-billstatus huggingface dataset:
Grand River Bands of Ottawa Indians of Michigan Referral Act

Bill: 110-s-1058
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Federal-Indian relations
Governmental investigations
Indian claims
Indian lands
Michigan
Minorities

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Grand River Bands of Ottawa Indians of Michigan Referral Act - Provides for an expedited review of the petition of the Grand River Bands of the Ottawa Indians of Michigan for recognition as a federal Indian tribe. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 110-686.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4191)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Zero-Emissions Building Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1059
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Climate change and greenhouse gases
Cost effectiveness
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Environmental Protection
Federal installations
Federal office buildings
Finance and Financial Sector
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Zero-Emissions Building Act of 2007 - Amends the Energy Conservation and Production Act to instruct the Secretary of Energy to establish revised federal building energy efficiency performance standards that require new federal buildings, if life-cycle cost-effective, be designed so that the greenhouse gas emissions are reduced, as compared to the fossil fuel-generated energy consumption by a similar federal building during FY2003, by specified increasing percentages between FY2007 and FY2030.
 
Prescribes alternative compliance guidelines.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Homeowners' Insurance Noncoverage Disclosure Act

Bill: 110-s-1061
Sponsor: Sen. Lott, Trent [R-MS]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Casualty insurance
Consumer education
Federal Trade Commission
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Insurance companies
Law
Property insurance
Restrictive trade practices

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Homeowners' Insurance Noncoverage Disclosure Act - Requires state-registered insurance companies to include on the front or first page of each individual homeowner's policy a noncoverage disclosure box that restates in plain English all conditions, exclusions, and other limitations pertaining to coverage under that policy.
 
Treats any failure to comply as a violation of unfair or deceptive acts or practices provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4298)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
William H. Frist Gift of Life Congressional Medal Act

Bill: 110-s-1062
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Awards, medals, prizes
Coins and coinage
Congress
Congressional tributes
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Gifts
Government trust funds
Health
Health information systems
Sunset legislation
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
William H. Frist Gift of Life Congressional Medal Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to design and strike a bronze medal to commemorate organ donors and their families.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to direct the entity holding the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network to contract to establish an application procedure and determine eligibility. 
Allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services or the Network contractor to provide duplicates of the medal to any recipient. 
Allows the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into an agreement with the Network contractor to collect funds to offset expenditures relating to the issuance of medals, which the Secretary shall deposit in the Numismatic Public Enterprise Fund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4204)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4203)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Military Family Financial Benefits Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1063
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Annuities
Caregivers
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Disabled
Families
Family services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government life insurance
Guardian and ward
Health
Labor and Employment
Law
Legal services
Medical screening
Military dependents
Military pensions
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Social Welfare
Suicide
Survivors' benefits
Trauma care
Veterans' pensions
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Protecting Military Family Financial Benefits Act of 2007 - Allows an unmarried member of the Armed Forces with one or more dependent children, upon becoming eligible to participate in the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP), to elect to provide an SBP annuity to an individual who acts as a guardian or caretaker to the dependent child or children.
 
Directs the Secretary of Defense to appoint a panel to review and identify best practices among pre-deployment counseling and services provided by the military departments to unmarried members of the Armed Forces with dependent children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4204-4207)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Restoring Disability Benefits for Injured and Wounded Warriors Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1064
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Brain
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Finance and Financial Sector
Government life insurance
Head injuries
Health
Hearing disorders
Iraq compilation
Law
Military discharges
Military pensions
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Spinal cord injuries
Trauma care
Veterans' disability compensation
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Restoring Disability Benefits for Injured and Wounded Warriors Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to appoint a panel to review each case before a Department of Defense (DOD) Physical Evaluation Board in which: (1) the Board determined to discharge or release a member of the Armed Forces without assigning a rating of disability to the member; and (2) the member appealed a Board determination regarding the rating of disability. Requires the panel to report whether any additional or different action should be taken by the military department concerned with respect to such determinations.
 
Directs the Secretary to appoint a panel to review, and take the same actions as above, cases in which a member was denied, or appealed the amount of, traumatic injury protection awarded under Servicemembers Group Life Insurance.
 
Requires the: (1) Secretary to report to Congress on the adequacy of the number of judge advocates assigned to physical evaluation board cases; and (2) Comptroller General to report to Congress assessing and addressing deficiencies in the disability evaluation systems of the military departments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4204-4207)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Heroes at Home Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1065
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Brain
Caregivers
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Employee training
Families
Governmental investigations
Head injuries
Health
Housing and Community Development
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Medical records
Medical tests
Mental health services
Middle East and North Africa
Military dependents
Military medicine
Military operations
Military readiness
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Rural health
Science, Technology, Communications
South Asia
Telemedicine
Trauma care
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Heroes at Home Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a protocol for the assessment and documentation of the cognitive (including memory) functioning of each member of the Armed Forces deployed in Operations Enduring Freedom or Iraqi Freedom before such deployment in order to facilitate their cognitive functioning upon their return.
 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a program on training and certification of family caregivers of veterans and members with traumatic brain injury.
 
Authorizes such Secretaries to jointly: (1) establish a demonstration project to assess the feasibility and advisability of using telehealth technology to assess cognitive functioning of members who have sustained head trauma in order to improve their diagnosis and treatment; and (2) conduct an ongoing study of all matters relating to the telehealth and telemental health services of the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, respectively.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4204-4207)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Medical Education Affordability Act

Bill: 110-s-1066
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Collection of accounts
Dentists
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Health
Higher education
Law
Licenses
Medical education
Medical residents
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Medical Education Affordability Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to revise specified regulations regarding student loan repayment deferment under certain programs of the Higher Education Act of 1965 with respect to borrowers who qualify for such deferment on the basis of economic hardship and are in postgraduate medical or dental internship, residency, or fellowship programs. 
 
Revises such regulations to: (1) make such deferment available to such borrowers for the duration of postgraduate medical or dental internship, residency, or fellowship programs if they must be successfully completed to begin work in the profession, or they lead to a degree or certificate from a health professional school or facility that offers postgraduate training; and (2) make it unnecessary for borrowers to apply annually for such deferments while participating in such programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4207)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4207)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy Places Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1067
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Citizen participation
Community health services
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Environmental research
Epidemiology
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Health planning
Health surveys
Housing and Community Development
Land use
Medical research
Minorities
Minority health
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Quality of life
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Healthy Places Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish an interagency working group to discuss environmental health concerns, particularly concerns disproportionately affecting disadvantaged populations.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to establish a program at the National Center of Environmental Health at CDC focused on advancing the field of health impact assessment.

Requires the Director to develop guidance for the assessment of potential health effects of land use, housing, and transportation policy and plans.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to: (1) establish a program to provide funding and technical assistance to state or local governments affected or potentially affected by an activity or proposed activity to prepare health impact assessments; and (2) establish and maintain a health impact assessment database.

Requires the Director to establish a grant program to award grants to state or local communities for environmental health improvement activities. Requires grantees to: (1) establish a planning and prioritizing council; and (2) conduct environmental health assessment.

Requires the Secretary to provide grants to public or private nonprofit institutions to conduct and coordinate research on the built environment and its influence on individual and population-based health.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4207-4208)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy Communities Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1068
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Chemicals
Chronically ill
Commerce
Community health services
Community organization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Demography
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Employee training
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Environmental justice
Environmental law enforcement
Environmental monitoring
Environmental research
Environmentally induced diseases
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Hazardous wastes
Health planning
Health surveys
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Medical education
Medical research
Medical statistics
Minorities
Minority health
Preventive medicine
Public health personnel
Public-private partnerships
Science, Technology, Communications
Soil pollution
Strategic planning

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Healthy Communities Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the Advisory Committee on Environmental Health to review environmental health data and studies to: (1) assess the impact of federal laws, policies, and practices on environmental health and justice; and (2) identify and recommend ways to change or ensure compliance with federal laws, address gaps in federal environmental health research, and prevent or mitigate harm from federal policies, programs, and practices that may adversely affect environmental health or justice.
 
Requires the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prepare a biennial Environmental Health Report Card for the nation and for each state.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) establish the Health Action Zone Program to award grants to at-risk communities for comprehensive environmental health improvement activities; and (2) expand and intensify environmental health research.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to provide grants and technical assistance to enable states to develop or expand activities related to biomonitoring of exposure to environmental toxicants and pollutants. Requires the Secretary to: (1) promote translation and dissemination of findings; and (2) incorporate the data collected under this Act with existing data collection efforts.
 
Requires the Director to expand training and educational activities relating to environmental health and justice for health professionals and public health practitioners. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4207-4208)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1069
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Authorization
Child health
Cost effectiveness
Data banks
Deaf
Department of Health and Human Services
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Family services
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Hearing
Higher education
Infants
Language and languages
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical records
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical tests
Performance measurement
Policy sciences
Quality of care
Recruiting of employees
Research and development
Research grants
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the newborns and infants hearing loss program to include diagnostic services among the services provided.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to assist in the recruitment, retention, education, and training of qualified personnel and health care providers.
 
Includes within the purposes of such program: (1) developing efficient models to ensure that newborns and infants who are identified with a hearing loss through screening are not lost to follow-up by a qualified health care provider; and (2) ensuring an adequate supply of qualified personnel to meet the screening, evaluation, and early intervention needs of children.
 
Requires the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), acting through the Director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, to establish a postdoctoral fellowship program to foster research and development in the area of early hearing detection and intervention.
 
Amends the definition of &quot;early intervention&quot; to require that families be given the opportunity to obtain the full range of early intervention services, educational and program placements, and other options for their child from highly qualified providers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4209)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4208-4209)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Catastrophic Disaster Recovery Fairness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1071
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Alabama
Disaster loans
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federally-guaranteed loans
Floods
Florida
Government lending
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Mississippi
Small business
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Catastrophic Disaster Recovery Fairness Act of 2007 - Directs the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), in providing SBA disaster relief assistance for any major disaster declared during the period beginning on August 29, 2005, and ending on October 24, 2005, to waive the prohibition on the duplication of benefits, including whether damage or destruction has been compensated by, credit is available from, activities are reimbursable through, or funds have been made available from any other source.
 
Applies such amendment to any SBA assistance provided on or after August 29, 2005 (thereby ensuring applicability and retroactivity for victims of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Free Internet Filing Act

Bill: 110-s-1074
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Electronic data interchange
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Income tax
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Internet
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax returns
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Free Internet Filing Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to enable individual taxpayers to file their income tax returns directly through the Internal Revenue Service website without the use of any intermediary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4213)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4212-4213)
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Unintended Pregnancy Reduction Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1075
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-03-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Contraceptives
Family planning and birth control
Government Operations and Politics
Medicaid
Social Welfare
State laws
Welfare eligibility
Welfare waivers
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: 
Unintended Pregnancy Reduction Act of 2007 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to: (1) include women who are not pregnant but who meet certain income eligibility standards in a mandatory categorically needy group for family planning services purposes; (2) allow a state Medicaid plan to provide for making medical assistance available to such individuals during a presumptive eligibility period; and (3) prohibit a state from providing for medical assistance through enrollment of an individual with benchmark coverage or benchmark-equivalent coverage unless it includes certain family planning services and supplies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-03-29
text: Introduced in Senate