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A bill to authorize the Secretary of the Army to acquire land for the purposes of expanding Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-135
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Colorado
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Easements
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Eminent domain
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental tax relations
Land transfers
Law
Local taxation
Military bases
Military maneuvers
Property tax
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Range management
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire land near Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site for the purpose of expanding the Site.
 
Prohibits any acquisition that would require the exercise of eminent domain by a federal or state entity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S134)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
National Domestic Preparedness Consortium Expansion of 2007

Bill: 110-s-136
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Colorado
Crime and Law Enforcement
Employee training
Labor and Employment
Mass rapid transit
Railroad safety
Research centers
Science, Technology, Communications
Security measures
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works
Transportation safety

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
National Domestic Preparedness Consortium Expansion Act of 2007 - Includes the Transportation Technology Center located in Pueblo, Colorado, within the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S134)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Preserving Medicare for All Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-137
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Coinsurance
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost control
Drug abuse
Drug industry
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Expedited congressional procedure
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
House rules and procedure
Insurance premiums
Legislation
Managed care
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medicare
Medication abuse
Metropolitan areas
Pharmacies
Prescription pricing
Rebates
Retiree health benefits
Sedatives
Senate rules and procedure
Social Welfare
Subsidies
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Preserving Medicare for All Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to repeal the prohibition against interference by the Secretary of Health and Human Services with the negotiations between drug manufacturers and pharmacies and prescription drug plan sponsors.
 
Grants the Secretary authority to negotiate contracts with manufacturers of covered part D drugs in order to ensure that beneficiaries enrolled under prescription drug plans and Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plans (MA-PD plans) pay the lowest possible price.
 

 
Allows the Medicare part D eligible individual an alternative to the current choice of coverage in at least two qualifying plans in the area in which the individual resides. Allows such an individual to choose enrollment in a nationwide prescription drug plan offered by the Secretary (to replace enrollment in a fallback prescription drug plan in any case in which such plans are not available).
 
Directs the Secretary, through the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, to: (1) take necessary steps to qualify and serve as a prescription drug plan sponsor; and (2) offer a prescription drug plan that offers basic prescription drug coverage throughout the United States, with a $35 premium for 2008, adjusted annually thereafter.
 
Requires such a plan to be in addition to, and not in lieu of, other prescription drug plans offered.

Provides for full reimbursement to employers for the cost of qualified retiree drug coverage, and permits their costs to count towards senior's catastrophic limits.

Abolishes the comparative cost adjustment program.

Eliminates the MA Regional Plan Stabilization Fund.

Repeals certain cost containment requirements.
 
Amends SSA title XVIII to provide for the removal of exclusion of benzodiazepines from required coverage under the Medicare prescription drug program.
 

 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S134-135)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to apply the joint return limitation for capital gains exclusion to certain post-marriage sales of principal residences by surviving spouses.

Bill: 110-s-138
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Families
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Income tax
Survivors' benefits
Tax exclusion
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a surviving spouse to exclude from gross income up to $500,000 of the gain from the sale or exchange of a principal residence owned jointly with a deceased spouse if the sale or exchange occurs within two years of the death of the spouse and other ownership and use requirements have been met. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Foreign Surveillance Expedited Review Act

Bill: 110-s-139
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Afghanistan
Armed Forces and National Security
Civil actions and liability
Crime and Law Enforcement
Electronic surveillance
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign banks and banking
Government Operations and Politics
Injunctions
International Affairs
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Judicial review
Middle East and North Africa
Pakistan
Parties to actions
Reporters and reporting
Science, Technology, Communications
South Asia
State-sponsored terrorism
Supreme Court
Terrorism
Warrants (Law)

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Foreign Surveillance Expedited Review Act - Provides standing for civil actions for declaratory and injunctive relief to persons who refrain from electronic communications through fear of being subject to warrantless electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Telephone Excise Tax Repeal Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-140
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Excise tax
Science, Technology, Communications
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Telephone Excise Tax Repeal Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the excise tax on communication services (i.e., local telephone service, toll telephone service, and teletypewriter exchange service). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
College Savings Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-141
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Congress
Education
Education savings accounts
Higher education
Income tax
Sunset legislation
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Tax penalties
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
College Savings Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the maximum annual contribution limit for Coverdell education savings accounts from $2,000 to $5,000 and make such increase permanent; and (2) allow a tax deduction up to $5,000 for contributions to an education savings account. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S572-573)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title XXI of the Social Security Act to allow qualifying States to use all or any portion of their allotments under the State Children's Health Insurance Program for certain Medicaid expenditures.

Bill: 110-s-142
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health insurance
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA), as amended by the National Institutes of Health Reform Act of 2006, to allow qualifying states to use all or any portion (currently, up to 20%) of their allotments under SCHIP for certain Medicaid (SSA title XIX) expenditures.
 
Requires qualifying states to implement at least three of the following policies and procedures: (1) a simplified application process; (2) elimination of any asset test; (3) twelve-month continuous eligibility; and (4) easy access to enrollment staff.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the deduction of State and local general sales taxes.

Bill: 110-s-143
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Local taxation
Sales tax
State taxation
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax deduction for state and local general sales taxes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Mynisha's Law

Bill: 110-s-144
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Block grants
Community development
Community policing
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime prevention
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to law enforcement
Gangs
Government Operations and Politics
Infrastructure
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Literacy programs
Preschool education
Youth employment
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Mynisha's Law - Authorizes any local or tribal government to submit an application to the Attorney General for designation as a Comprehensive Gang Prevention and Relief Area. 
 
Directs the Attorney General to: (1) establish criteria for reviewing such applications; and (2) establish an Interagency Gang Prevention Task Force. Directs the Task Force to: (1) coordinate government activities to create a comprehensive gang prevention response, focusing on early childhood intervention, at-risk youth intervention, literacy, employment, community policing, and comprehensive community-based programs such as Operation Cease Fire; (2) coordinate with local and regional gang prevention efforts; and (3) prioritize the needs of such Areas for funding under specified federal community assistance and grant programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Pacific Salmon Emergency Disaster Assistance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-145
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Appropriations
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Fishery management
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Pacific States (U.S.)
Salmon

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Pacific Salmon Emergency Disaster Assistance Act of 2007 - Appropriates funds for a lump sum payment to the Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission. Requires the Commission to distribute the funds among various entities for assistance for the economic and social effects of the commercial fishery failure designated under specified provisions of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act regarding closures or restrictions on harvesting of Klamath River Fall Chinook salmon.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Government Fleet Fuel Economy Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-146
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Energy
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Government vehicles

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Government Fleet Fuel Economy Act of 2007 - Amends provisions relating to standards for executive agency automobiles to require each passenger vehicle purchased, or leased for at least 60 consecutive days, by an executive agency after enactment of this Act to be as fuel efficient as possible. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S6473-6475)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S135)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Afghan Women Empowerment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-147
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Administration of justice
Afghanistan
Authorization
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crimes against women
Curricula
Democracy
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Heads of households
Health
Human rights
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Law
Literacy programs
Married people
Maternal health services
Mathematics
Mental depression
Mental health services
Nongovernmental organizations
Nonprofit organizations
Orphans
Police training
Rape
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Sex discrimination
Social Welfare
South Asia
Technical education
Vocational and technical education
Voting rights
Widows
Women
Women in government
Women in public life
Women's education
Women's employment
Women's health
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Afghan Women Empowerment Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that the protection of the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan and their full participation in the reestablishment of democracy are essential to Afghanistan's reconstruction, and to achieve such reconstruction the U.S. government must commit resources to advance the rights of women throughout Afghanistan. 
 
Amends the Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002 to revise the provisions respecting assistance to women and girls in Afghanistan. Extends funding authority. 
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should: (1) condition the provision of such assistance on the recipient adhering to international standards for women's rights and human rights; and (2) ensure that Afghan women-led nongovernmental organizations with demonstrated experience in delivering services to Afghan women and children receive grants without ethnic, religious, or any other discrimination. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Paterson Great Falls National Park Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-148
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Commerce
Cultural property
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Infrastructure
Land transfers
National parks
New Jersey
Public-private partnerships
Sports and Recreation
Stadiums

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Paterson Great Falls National Park Act of 2007 - Establishes in Paterson, New Jersey, the Paterson Great Falls National Park as a unit of the National Park System. 
 
Requires the Park to be administered in partnership by the Secretary of the Interior, the state of New Jersey, the city of Paterson and its applicable subdivisions, and others.
 
Establishes the Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park Partnership to coordinate the activities of federal, state, and local authorities and the private sector in the development, for the Secretary's approval, and implementation of an integrated resource management plan.
 
Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Park Service, to establish a Paterson Great Falls National Park Advisory Council.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to acquire land or interests within the boundaries of the Park by donation, purchase with donated or appropriated funds, or exchange.


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: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S136-138)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S135-136)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Preserving Crime Victims' Restitution Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-149
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Appellate procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Compensation for victims of crime
Death
Forfeiture
Indictments
Law
Pleas (Criminal procedure)
Probation
Right to counsel
Sentences (Criminal procedure)

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Preserving Crime Victims' Restitution Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to establish guidelines for cases in which a defendant in a criminal prosecution dies prior to the final adjudication of guilt. Sets forth rules for restitution to victims, appeals, motions, petitions, and civil forfeiture in such cases.

Provides, as a general rule, that the death of a defendant who has been convicted of a federal criminal offense shall not be the basis for abating or otherwise invalidating a plea of guilty or nolo contendere accepted, a verdict returned, a sentence announced, or a judgment entered prior to the death of such defendant, or for dismissing or otherwise invalidating the indictment, information, or complaint, except as provided by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S139-140)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S138-139)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
Protecting Pregnant Women and Children From Perchlorate Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-150
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Aviation fuels
Chemicals
Child health
Commerce
Consumer education
Energy
Environmental Protection Agency
Environmental health
Environmental monitoring
Explosives
Families
Fetus
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health warnings
Infants
Infrastructure
Law
Potable water
Pregnant women
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water supply
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Protecting Pregnant Women and Children From Perchlorate Act of 2007 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to publish a health advisory and promulgate a national primary drinking water regulation for perchlorate that fully protect the health of vulnerable persons (including pregnant women, fetuses, infants, and children), taking into consideration body weight, exposure patterns, and all routes of exposure. 

action_date: 2008-09-24
text: 
Protecting Pregnant Women and Children From Perchlorate Act of 2008 - Amends the Safe Drinking Water Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to: (1) publish (within 90 days) a health advisory for perchlorate that is fully protective, with an adequate margin of safety, of the health of vulnerable persons (including pregnant women, infants, and children), taking into consideration body weight, exposure patterns, and all routes of exposure; and (2) propose (within nine months) and finalize (within 18 months) a national primary drinking water regulation for perchlorate that is protective of vulnerable persons and the maximum contaminant level of which is as close to the maximum contaminant level goal for perchlorate, and as protective of vulnerable persons, as is feasible.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 1055.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-484. Minority views filed.
action_date: 2008-09-24
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-484. Minority views filed.
action_date: 2008-07-31
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S141)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S140-141)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate
California Ocean and Coastal Protection Act

Bill: 110-s-151
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: California
Continental shelf
Gas in submerged lands
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Oil and gas leases
Oil well drilling
Pacific Ocean
Petroleum in submerged lands
Prospecting

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
California Ocean and Coastal Protection Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to prohibit oil and gas preleasing, leasing, and related activities in areas of the Outer Continental Shelf located off the coast of California.
 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to exclude such areas from the waters of the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf whose oil and natural gas resources the Secretary of Energy is required to inventory and analyze.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in Senate