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Indian Youth Telemental Health Demonstration Project Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-322
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-01-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Alaska
Alternative medicine
Child health
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Counseling
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to child health services
Health
Higher education
Indian children
Indian education
Indian medical care
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical statistics
Mental health services
Minorities
Preventive medicine
Psychiatry
Psychotherapy
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Suicide
Telemedicine

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: 
Indian Youth Telemental Health Demonstration Project Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out a demonstration project to award up to five grants, of up to four years each, for the provision of telemental health services to Indian youth who have expressed suicidal ideas, have attempted suicide, or have mental health conditions that increase or could increase the risk of suicide. 
 
Makes eligible for such grants any Indian tribes and tribal organizations that operate one or more facilities: (1) located in Alaska and part of the Alaska Federal Health Care Access Network; (2) reporting active clinical telehealth capabilities; or (3) offering school-based telemental health services relating to psychiatry to Indian youth.

action_date: 2007-04-10
text: 
Indian Youth Telemental Health Demonstration Project Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out a demonstration project to award up to five grants, of up to four years each, for the provision of telemental health services to Indian youth who have expressed suicidal ideas, have attempted suicide, or have mental health conditions that increase or could increase the risk of suicide. 
 
Makes eligible for such grants any Indian tribes and tribal organizations that operate one or more facilities: (1) located in Alaska and part of the Alaska Federal Health Care Access Network; (2) reporting active clinical telehealth capabilities; or (3) offering school-based telemental health services relating to psychiatry to Indian youth.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 108.
action_date: 2007-04-10
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Dorgan with an amendment. With written report No. 110-43.
action_date: 2007-04-10
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Reported by Senator Dorgan with an amendment. With written report No. 110-43.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Committee on Indian Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S694-695)
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S693-694)
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require persons seeking approval for a liquefied natural gas facility to identify employees and agents engaged in activities to persuade communities of the benefits of the approval.

Bill: 110-s-323
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-01-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Business records
Commerce
Data banks
Energy facilities
Gas industry
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Law
Licenses
Liquefied natural gas
Lobbying
Public relations
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: 
Instructs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Secretary of Transportation, and the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating to: (1) require an applicant for approval under the Natural Gas Act or the Deepwater Port Act of 1974 (DPA) of the siting, construction, expansion, or operation of a liquefied natural gas facility (including an off-shore facility under DPA), to identify each employee or agent engaged in activities to persuade communities of the benefits of such approval; and (2) maintain a publicly available database listing all such employees and agents.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S695)
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S695)
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: Introduced in Senate
New Mexico Aquifer Assessment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-324
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2007-01-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Aquifers
Congressional reporting requirements
Environmental Protection
Environmental research
Geology
Groundwater
Hydrology
Infrastructure
New Mexico
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Saline waters
Science, Technology, Communications
Water quality
Water supply
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: 
New Mexico Aquifer Assessment Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), to conduct a study of water resources in New Mexico, to include: (1) a survey of groundwater resources and a characterization of surface and bedrock geology; and (2) the Estancia Basin, Salt Basin, Tularosa Basin, Hueco Basin, and middle Rio Grande Basin.

action_date: 2007-06-28
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

New Mexico Aquifer Assessment Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the United States Geological Survey (USGS), to study and report to specified congressional committees on water resources in New Mexico, to include: (1) a survey of groundwater resources and a characterization of surface and bedrock geology; and (2) the Estancia Basin, Salt Basin, Tularosa Basin, Hueco Basin, and middle Rio Grande Basin. Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 253.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 110-112.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman without amendment. With written report No. 110-112.
action_date: 2007-05-23
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-04-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-86.
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S696)
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S695-696)
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Health Partnership Act

Bill: 110-s-325
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-01-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Congress
Economics and Public Finance
Expedited congressional procedure
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Health information systems
Health insurance
Health planning
Housing and Community Development
Legislation
Medical economics
Medical records
Medically uninsured
Performance measurement
Quality of care
Rural health
State-local relations
Urban affairs
Urban areas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: 
Health Partnership Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a State Health Innovation Commission. Requires the Commission to: (1) provide states with reform options for state health care expansion and improvement programs; (2) establish minimum performance measures and goals with respect to coverage, quality, and cost of state programs; (3) review state applications and determine whether to submit a state proposal to Congress; and (4) submit to Congress a list of state applications that the Commission recommends for approval. Deems such proposals to be approved unless a joint resolution has been enacted disapproving such proposal. Sets forth rules for congressional consideration of such proposals.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) provide a grant to a state that has an application approved to enable such state to carry out an innovative state health program; (2) give priority to those state programs that the Commission determines have the greatest opportunity to succeed in providing expanded health insurance coverage and improving health access; and (3) link state allocations to the meeting of the goals and performance measures established under this Act.
 
Prohibits states from: (1) failing to maintain the same level of expenditures for health care coverage; (2) changing eligibility criteria for state medical assistance programs; or (3) permitting the imposition of any preexisting condition exclusion for covered benefits, with exceptions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S698-701)
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S696-698)
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Disabled Veterans Tax Fairness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-326
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2007-01-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Claims
Disabled
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Law
Limitation of actions
Military pensions
Tax credits
Tax refunds
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: 
Disabled Veterans Tax Fairness Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow members of the uniformed services whose retired pay in any taxable year is reduced due to an award of disability compensation by the Department of Veterans Affairs an extension of the three-year limitation period for filing tax refund claims until one year after the date of a disability determination. Limits the period for which such refund claims may be filed to taxable years beginning less than five years before the date of a disability determination.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S702)
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Cesar Estrada Chavez Study Act

Bill: 110-s-327
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2007-01-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agricultural labor
Agriculture and Food
Arizona
California
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil rights workers
Commemorations
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Migrant labor
National parks
Nonviolence
West (U.S.)

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: Cesar Estrada Chavez Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to complete a special resource study to determine: (1) appropriate methods for preserving and interpreting certain sites in Arizona, California, and other states that are significant to the life of Cesar Estrada Chavez and the farm labor movement in the western United States; and (2) whether any of the sites meets the criteria for listing on the National Register of Historic Places or designation as a national historic landmark.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-213.
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S702)
action_date: 2007-01-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-329
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cardiovascular diseases
Lung diseases
Medicare
Respiratory diseases
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: 
Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage of items and services under a cardiac rehabilitation program and a pulmonary rehabilitation program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide grants from moneys collected from violations of the corporate average fuel economy program to be used to expand infrastructure necessary to increase the availability of alternative fuels.

Bill: 110-s-331
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Alternative energy sources
Automobile industry
Biomass energy
Coal
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Electric vehicles
Energy conservation
Fines (Penalties)
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Government trust funds
Hydrogen
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Law
Liquefied petroleum gas
Methanol
Natural gas
Natural gas vehicles
Petroleum industry
Service stations
Solar energy
Subsidies

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: 
Establishes the Energy Security Fund, to be funded by proceeds deposited in the general fund of the Treasury from fines, penalties, and other funds obtained through enforcement actions for violations of automobile fuel economy standards.
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy, acting through the Clean Cities Program of the Department of Energy, to establish a program of grants to expand the availability of alternative fuels to consumers. Makes amounts in the Fund available to the Secretary for such grants. 
 
Declares eligible for assistance any entity that is eligible for assistance under the Clean Cities Program.
 
Bars from such assistance: (1) large, vertically-integrated oil companies; and (2) any entity that receives other federal funds for the construction or expansion of the same alternative refueling infrastructure.
 
Sets forth a maximum ceiling for grants and for stations. 
 
Limits the use of such funds to construction or expansion of alternative fueling infrastructure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S756-757)
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in Senate
POWER Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-332
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Federal officials
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Law
Oaths
Right of privacy
Subpoena

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: 
Privacy Officer With Enhanced Rights Act of 2007 or the POWER Act of 2007 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the privacy officer of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to: (1) have access to all records and other materials available to DHS relating to programs and operations for which the privacy officer has responsibilities; (2) make necessary or desirable investigations and reports on the administration of DHS programs and operations; (3) subpoena the production, by persons other than federal agencies, of all information and other data and documentary evidence necessary to performance of the privacy officer's responsibilities; and (4) administer oaths, affirmations, or take affidavits.
 
Requires: (1) the privacy officer to report to and be under the general supervision of the Secretary of DHS; and (2) the Secretary to report to Congress upon removing or transferring the officer to another position or location within DHS.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Lumbee Recognition Act

Bill: 110-s-333
Sponsor: Sen. Dole, Elizabeth [R-NC]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to Indians
Federal-Indian relations
Government Operations and Politics
Indian lands
Land transfers
Minorities
North Carolina
Public Lands and Natural Resources
State government-Indian relations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: 
Lumbee Recognition Act - Amends federal law relating to the Lumbee Indians of North Carolina to extend federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to prohibit the Internal Revenue Service from using private debt collection companies, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-335
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Collection of accounts
Department of the Treasury
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Income tax
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Tax administration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: 
Requires the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to suspend the use of private debt collection companies to collect unpaid taxes and prohibits the use of any IRS funds for tax collection contracts with private companies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S763-764)
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Barrier Project Consolidation and Construction Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-336
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Animals
Aquatic ecology
Canals
Economics and Public Finance
Exotic animals
Exotic plants
Federal aid to water resources development
Governmental investigations
Great Lakes
Illinois
Mississippi River
Non-native species
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: 
Barrier Project Consolidation and Construction Act of 2007 - Requires the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal Dispersal Barrier Project constructed as a demonstration project under the Nonindigenous Aquatic Nuisance Prevention and Control act of 1990 (Barrier I) and the related project authorized under the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 2005 (Barrier II) to be considered to constitute a single project. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Army, at full federal expense, to: (1) upgrade and make permanent Barrier I, construct Barrier II, operate and maintain Barriers I and II as a system, conduct a study of a full range of options and technologies for reducing impacts of hazards that may reduce the efficacy of the Barriers, and provide to each state a credit in an amount equal to that of funds contributed by the state toward Barrier II (which the state may apply to any cost-sharing responsibility for an existing or future federal project with the Corps of Engineers); and (2) conduct a feasibility study of the range of options and technologies to prevent the spread of aquatic nuisance species between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins through the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and other aquatic pathways. 
 
Changes the authorization for Barrier II to such sums as may be necessary. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S764-765)
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in Senate
White Spaces Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-337
Sponsor: Sen. Sununu, John E. [R-NH]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Licenses
Marketing
Television frequency allocation
Wireless communication

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: 
White Spaces Act of 2007 - Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to complete its proceeding and issue a final order in the Matter of Unlicensed Operation in the TV Broadcast Bands, ET Docket No. 04-186 (concerning vacant, or &quot;white space,&quot; spectrum between television channels) not later than 90 days after enactment of this Act or October 1, 2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Long-Term Care Hospital Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-338
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-01-18 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Cardiovascular diseases
Case management
Case mix (Medical care)
Communicable diseases
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Digestive diseases
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Kidney diseases
Labor and Employment
Law
Long-term care
Medicaid
Medical records
Medicare
Metabolism
Nervous system diseases
Performance measurement
Physicians
Quality of care
Respiratory diseases
Rural health
Skin diseases
Social Welfare
Urban affairs
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: 
Medicare Long-Term Care Hospital Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to prescribe requirements for a long-term care hospital (LTCH) and patient criteria for prospective payment to an LTCH.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) determine a list of medical conditions associated with a high severity of illness of patients who are appropriate for treatment in long-term care hospitals, as indicated by the presence of clinical comorbidities in accordance with a methodology specified by the Secretary; and (2) study and report to Congress on appropriate quality measures for Medicare beneficiaries receiving care in LTCHs.
 
Directs the Secretary to choose three quality measures from the study for LTCHs to report.
 
Amends the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000 to require annual updates of LTCH base rates and wage indices and the reweighting of LTCH-DRGs. 

Prohibits the Secretary from extending application of the 25% (or applicable percentage) patient threshold payment adjustment to freestanding LTCHs.
 
Directs the Secretary to permit up to 75% of the discharged Medicare inpatient population: (1) of an applicable hospital to be admitted from a co-located urban single or co-located MSA dominant hospital without adjustment to the hospital's LTCH prospective payment system payment in a specified manner; and (2) of an applicable hospital located in a rural area to be admitted from a co-located hospital without such an adjustment, either.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S765)
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Introduced in Senate