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Medicare Safe Needle Disposal Coverage Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3251
Sponsor: Rep. Ferguson, Mike [R-NJ-7]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug therapy
Medical supplies
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
Medicare Safe Needle Disposal Coverage Act of 2007 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover as a part D drug any devices approved for home use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the safe and effective removal, decontamination, and disposal of needles and the disposal of needles and syringes through a sharps-by-mail or similar program as medically appropriate based on volume of usage.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Social Security Act to eliminate the time limitation for corrections to wage and self-employment income records.

Bill: 110-hr-3252
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Earnings
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Law
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Public records
Self-employed
Social Security Administration
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the time limitation for corrections to wage and self-employment income records.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Measuring and Evaluating Trends for Reliability, Integrity, and Continued Success Act

Bill: 110-hr-3253
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Charter schools
Child welfare
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Computer matching
Continuing education
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational research
Educational statistics
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Identification devices
Illiteracy
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Literacy programs
Military personnel
Minorities
Minority education
Nonprofit organizations
Personnel records
Preschool education
Right of privacy
School security
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Student enrollment
Student records
Teacher education
Teachers
Unemployment insurance

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
Measuring and Evaluating Trends for Reliability, Integrity, and Continued Success Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require each state receiving school improvement funds to implement, within four years of this Act's enactment, a pre- through high-school longitudinal data system that includes: (1) a unique and consistent statewide student identifier; (2) the ability to track student participation and performance over time; (3) a unique and consistent statewide teacher identifier that matches student records to the appropriate teacher; and (4) the ability to link its data to data from higher education, workforce development, unemployment insurance, child welfare, juvenile justice, and military services information systems.
 
Allots funds to states to operate, upgrade, and optimize the use of their data systems.
 
Reserves funds for competitive grants to nonprofit entities to support a state education data center.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
BRAC Cost Overruns Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3254
Sponsor: Rep. Holt, Rush [D-NJ-12]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Defense budgets
Economics and Public Finance
Military base closures

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
BRAC Cost Overruns Protection Act of 2007 or BRAC COP Act of 2007 - Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to direct the Secretary of Defense to report to the congressional defense committees on the costs of implementing recommendations of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission that relate to military base closures and realignments that have not been fully implemented. Requires the Secretary to: (1) notify such committees if the Secretary determines that the current estimate of implementation costs for an individual major base closure or realignment is at least 25% greater than the baseline estimate for such closure or realignment; and (2) develop a business plan to reduce the costs of any individual substantially over-budget major base closure or realignment to a level less than 25% greater than its baseline estimate.
 
Directs the: (1) Secretary to submit to the President a recommendation regarding whether to continue implementation of a substantially over-budget major base closure or realignment; and (2) President to report to Congress regarding the implementation of such a closure or realignment.
 
Prohibits the Secretary from continuing or discontinuing the implementation of a substantially over-budget major closure or realignment recommended by the President if a joint resolution disapproving the President's recommendation is enacted.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Teddy Roosevelt Bring Back Our Public Lands Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3255
Sponsor: Rep. Hunter, Duncan [R-CA-52]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative fees
Animals
Bears
Deer
Economics and Public Finance
Elk
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Hunting
Law
Licenses
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
Teddy Roosevelt Bring Back Our Public Lands Act of 2007 - Prohibits a state from charging more than $200 for the issuance to an individual of a permit, license, or other similar document granting to such individual the right to hunt big game (deer, elk, antelope, or bear) on federal public lands in that state. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2007-08-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1671-1672)
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Psychological Kevlar Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3256
Sponsor: Rep. Kennedy, Patrick J. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Congressional reporting requirements
Families
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health planning
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Medical research
Mental health services
Military dependents
Military medicine
Military personnel
Military training
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Preventive medicine
Psychotherapy
Science, Technology, Communications
Stress (Psychology)

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
Psychological Kevlar Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to develop and implement a plan to incorporate preventive and early-intervention measures, practices, or procedures that reduce the likelihood that personnel in combat will develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or other stress-related psychopathologies, including substance use conditions.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) update the plan periodically; (2) develop and implement a training program to educate and promote awareness among commissioned and noncommissioned officers, front-line medical professionals and primary care providers, and military personnel and their families about the signs and risks of combat stress and stress-related psychopathology; (3) establish a working group to research and develop measures that reduce the likelihood of PTSD or other pathologies in combat veterans; and (4) establish a new Peer-Reviewed Research program for such research and development.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Fitness Integrated with Teaching Kids Act

Bill: 110-hr-3257
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Agriculture and Food
Building construction
Child health
Child nutrition
Class size
Community and school
Continuing education
Drug abuse prevention
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational counseling
Educational planning
Educational research
Educational statistics
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Health
Health education
Higher education
Information services
Lifestyle
Obesity
Parent-school relationships
Performance measurement
Physical education and training
Physical fitness
School administration
School buildings
School health programs
School security
Secondary education
Sports and Recreation
Standards
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
Fitness Integrated with Teaching Kids Act or the FIT Kids Act - Requires state accountability systems, required under part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), to measure not only student academic progress, but their progress toward a national goal of 150 minutes of weekly physical education in elementary school and 225 minutes of weekly physical education in middle and high schools.
 
Amends the ESEA to require annual state and local educational agency report cards to include specified information on school health and physical education programs.
 
Includes the promotion of healthy, active lifestyles by students within ESEA grant programs that support school counseling, safe and drug-free schools and communities, smaller learning communities, community learning centers, parental involvement in their childrens' education, and the construction of healthy high-performing schools.
 
Revises the professional development program for teachers and principals to include training for physical and health education teachers, and training on improving students' health habits and participation in physical activities.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to contract with the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a study and provide recommendations regarding school programs to improve student health and participation in physical activities.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award grants to states to implement assessments effectively measuring cognitive development in physical education and physical activity skills, motor skills development, and how much students value physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and social interaction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Single Parent Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3258
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child support
Collection of accounts
Families
Income tax
Tax credits
Tax rates
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
Single Parent Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow individual taxpayers who are entitled to receive child support a refundable tax credit for any unpaid portion of such support; and (2) increase the income tax liability of any individual required to pay child support by the amount of the unpaid child support allowed as a tax credit by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to issue rules that designate no-fly zones in the vicinity of certain nuclear power plants, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-3259
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air routes
Department of Homeland Security
Energy
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Nuclear power plants
Nuclear terrorism
Terrorism
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to authorize the Secretary of Homeland Security to issue rules that designate no-fly zones in the vicinity of certain nuclear power plants and prohibit the operation of aircraft in such zones.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to modify regulations to provide that certain Federal subsidies shall not be considered a grant made with respect to a building or its operation for purposes of the low-income housing tax credit.

Bill: 110-hr-3260
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Administrative procedure
Affordable housing
Apartment houses
Armed Forces and National Security
Department of the Treasury
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to housing
Federally-guaranteed loans
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Homeless
Housing finance
Housing subsidies
Income tax
Indian housing
Law
Low-income housing
Minorities
Mortgage interest rates
Mortgages
Native Americans
Rental housing
Rural housing
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Taxation
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to modify certain Treasury Regulations to provide that none of the following shall be considered a grant made with respect to a building or its operation for purposes of the required reduction of eligible basis by grants received under the low-income housing tax credit: (1) specified rental assistance under the Housing Act of 1949, Housing Act of 1959, and the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act; (2) loan guarantees for multifamily rental housing in rural area under the Housing Act of 1949; (3) periodic interest reduction payments on behalf of owner of rental or cooperative housing project for low-income families under the National Housing Act; (4) modernization, operating, and rental assistance under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act of 1996; (5) certain assistance under the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act for grantees following a current housing affordability strategy or an approved comprehensive homeless assistance plan; (6) tenant-based rental assistance under the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act; (7) assistance under the AIDS Housing Opportunity Act; (8) per diem payments for furnishing services to homeless veterans; (9) rent supplements under the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1965; (10) rural housing voucher program assistance under the Housing Act of 1949; and (11) any other ongoing payment similar to any of these payments and designed to reduce cash flow needs from rent to enable the property to be rented to low-income tenants.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Federal Power Act and the Natural Gas Act to require that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission conduct local hearings before issuing a permit or other authorization for any action that may affect land use in any locality, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-3261
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Christopher [D-CT-5]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Energy
Energy facilities
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Land use
Law
Licenses
Metropolitan areas
Public meetings
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
Amends the Federal Power Act and the Natural Gas Act to direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), before issuing a permit or other authorization for any action that may affect land use in any locality, to hold a public hearing in that locality, if requested by five or more individuals or an organization representing 30 or more individuals.
 
Requires the hearing to be held in a statistical metropolitan area at a location reasonably central to the affected areas, if a facility affects multiple areas. 
 
Instructs FERC to hold such a hearing whenever a request for reconsideration is granted, if FERC did not hold a hearing before issuing the permit or authorization.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to restore age 14 as the age at which unearned income of minor children ceases to be taxed as if parent's income.

Bill: 110-hr-3262
Sponsor: Rep. Musgrave, Marilyn N. [R-CO-4]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Age
Families
Income tax
Parent and child
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
Repeals the provision in the Tax Increase Prevention and Reconciliation Act of 2005 which increased from 14 to 18 the age until which the unearned income of children is taxed at their parents' marginal income tax rates (thus restoring the age limit to 14). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
Universal Prekindergarten and Early Childhood Education Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3263
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-07-31 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to education
Preschool education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: 
Universal Prekindergarten and Early Childhood Education Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow local educational agencies (LEAs) that receive funds for 21st Century Community Learning Center activities to use them also for educational activities for children four years of age or younger, if the LEA agrees to phase in, where possible, a prekindergarten program taught by teachers with qualifications equivalent or similar to those teaching other grades in the school involved.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-08-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1674)
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Introduced in House