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Fire Fighter Higher Education Incentive Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4152
Sponsor: Rep. Sarbanes, John P. [D-MD-3]
Introduced: 2007-11-09 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal aid to education
Fire fighters
Government lending
Higher education
Scholarships
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-09
text: 
Fire Fighter Higher Education Incentive Act of 2007 - Amends title IV (Student Assistance) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 to cancel the Perkins loans of full-time federal, state, and local fire fighters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-11-09
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-11-09
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-09
text: Introduced in House
To increase the insurance limitations on Federal insurance for bonds issued by the designated bonding authority for Historically Black Colleges and Universities capital financing.

Bill: 110-hr-4154
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Black colleges
Bonds
Building construction
Economics and Public Finance
Federally-guaranteed loans
Higher education
Minorities
School buildings

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase the amount of the outstanding principal and interest on capital financing bonds for historically Black colleges and universities that may be federally insured.

action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase the amount of the outstanding principal and interest on capital financing bonds for historically Black colleges and universities that may be federally insured.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H13826)
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H13826)
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4154.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H13826-13828)
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Mr. Miller, George moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
Pisgah National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4155
Sponsor: Rep. Shuler, Heath [D-NC-11]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
National forests
North Carolina

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 
Pisgah National Forest Boundary Adjustment Act of 2007 - Modifies the boundaries of the Pisgah National Forest in McDowell County, North Carolina, to provide for the inclusion of certain private land and Forest Service land in the Forest. Requires an owner's consent to acquire the private land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
Sanctity of Human Life Act

Bill: 110-hr-4157
Sponsor: Rep. Broun, Paul C. [R-GA-10]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Abortion
Congress
Fetus
Government Operations and Politics
Humans
Legislation
Local laws
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 
Sanctity of Human Life Act - Declares that: (1) the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each human and is the person's paramount and most fundamental right; (2) each human life begins with fertilization, cloning, or its functional equivalent, at which time every human has all legal and constitutional attributes and privileges of personhood; and (3) Congress, each state, the District of Columbia, and all U.S. territories have the authority to protect all human lives.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
National Urban Search and Rescue Response System Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4158
Sponsor: Rep. Cohen, Steve [D-TN-9]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Disability retirement
Disaster relief
Emergency medicine
Employee rights
Federal advisory bodies
Federal employees
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Labor and Employment
Law enforcement officers
Licenses
Nonprofit organizations
Paramedical personnel
Police
Public-private partnerships
Rescue work
Social Welfare
Wages
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 
National Urban Search and Rescue Response System Act of 2007 - Amends the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to direct the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to: (1) continue to administer the National Urban Search and Rescue Response System; (2) provide for a national network of standardized search and rescue resources; (3) designate task forces to participate in the System and determine criteria for participation; and (4) enter into an agreement with the required sponsoring agency of each task force regarding participation. 

Sets forth provisions regarding the composition of task forces and reimbursement. 

Authorizes the Administrator to appoint a System member for a period of federal service to participate in sponsored or sanctioned exercises, pre-incident staging, major disaster and emergency response activities, and training events. Entitles a member who suffers personal injury, illness, disability, or death while acting in the scope of such appointment to be treated as an employee who sustained the injury in the performance of duty.

 Sets forth provisions regarding election of benefits, liability, employment and re-employment rights, and licenses and permits. 

Directs the Administrator to: (1) establish and maintain an advisory committee; and (2) enter into an annual preparedness cooperative agreement with each agency; and (3) enter into response cooperative agreements under which the Administrator agrees to reimburse agencies for emegency response costs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
To withhold certain highway funds if a State does not comply with certain requirements in issuing a driver's license or identification card, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-4160
Sponsor: Rep. Fossella, Vito [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Driver licenses
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Highway finance
Identification devices
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Transportation to withhold specified graduated percentages of a state's apportionment of certain federal-aid highways funds for FY2010 and thereafter if driver licenses or personal identification cards issued by the state do not meet with certain minimum federal standards to be accepted by a federal agency. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-11-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-11-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Homelessness Prevention Act

Bill: 110-hr-4161
Sponsor: Rep. Green, Al [D-TX-9]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Families
Family services
Homeless
Housing subsidies
Low-income housing
Nonprofit organizations
Rent
Social Welfare
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 
Veterans Homelessness Prevention Act - Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to establish a pilot program to provide assistance to private nonprofit organizations and consumer cooperatives to expand the supply of supportive housing for certain very low-income veteran families.
 
Allows such assistance to be in the form of: (1) a grant for costs of planning a supportive housing project; (2) a capital advance for such project; and (3) project rental assistance.
 

 

 
Requires the Secretary to coordinate with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to ensure that any housing assistance provided to veterans or veteran families includes a range of services tailored to the needs of very low-income veteran families.
 
Requires HUD periodically to establish development cost limitations by market area for various types and sizes of such supportive housing.
 
Establishes a special housing account.
 
Requires the owner of such supportive housing to adopt HUD-approved tenant selection procedures.
 

 
Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to extend to all homeless veterans, regardless of medical condition, the program of rental vouchers for Department of Veterans Affairs supported housing, which is currently limited to homeless veterans who have chronic mental illnesses or chronic substance use disorders.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2007-11-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2007-11-13
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
San Bernardino Biomass Use Facilitation Act

Bill: 110-hr-4162
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, Jerry [R-CA-41]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Biomass energy
California
Energy
Environmental Protection
Land transfers
National forests
Recycling of waste products
Sports and Recreation
Trails

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 
San Bernardino Biomass Use Facilitation Act - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain National Forest System (NFS) land in the San Bernardino National Forest, California, in exchange for the conveyance of certain non-federal land by the County of San Bernardino to the Secretary for the purpose of making available to the county land for biomass utilization facilities, biomass recycling activities, and industrial resource recovery and recycling activities. 
 
Requires the Secretary, before completing such land exchange, to relocate the portion of the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail located on the federal land to adjacent NFS land. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-11
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-11-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
Zero Tolerance School Terror Act

Bill: 110-hr-4163
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Arson
Assault
Bombings
Bombs
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Explosives
Extortion
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
School security
Secondary education
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 
Zero Tolerance School Terror Act - Amends the federal criminal code to increase to 20 years the maximum prison term for threats to kill, injure, intimidate, or cause property damage if such threats concern conduct on the grounds of an elementary or secondary school.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
Child Care Affordability Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4164
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Adult day care
Cost of living adjustments
Day care
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Married people
Mentally disabled
Parents
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 
Child Care Affordability Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow a tax deduction for expenses paid for household and dependent care services necessary for gainful employment; (2) increase the dollar limitation on the tax credit for such expenses; (3) provide for an inflation adjustment after 2008 to the dollar amounts for such tax deduction and tax credit; and (4) make such tax credit refundable. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2402)
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
To provide grants to encourage and enhance the study of modeling and simulation at institutions of higher education.

Bill: 110-hr-4165
Sponsor: Rep. Scott, Robert C. "Bobby" [D-VA-3]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Science, Technology, Communications
Simulation methods

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to establish a taskforce within the Department of Education to recommend improvements to the study of modeling and simulation, and identify the core capacities that students in such programs should acquire.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to award: (1) competitive grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) for the enhancement of their existing modeling and simulation programs; and (2) grants to IHEs for the establishment of such programs. Requires grantees to raise, from nonfederal sources, an amount equal to 25% of their grants. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2407-2408)
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
Broadcast Ownership for the 21st Century Act

Bill: 110-hr-4167
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Competition
Federal Communications Commission
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Licenses
Newspapers
Radio stations
Television industry
Television stations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Broadcast Ownership for the 21st Century Act - Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to modify current cross-ownership limitations by eliminating provisions limiting the granting or renewal of an AM or FM radio or television broadcast license to any party on the basis of the ownership, operation, or control of a daily newspaper. 
 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians of the State of Michigan to convey land and interests in land owned by the Tribe, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-4168
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Indian lands
Land transfers
Michigan
Minorities
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 
Authorizes the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Michigan to convey fee simple land owned by the Tribe. 

Deems this Act to have taken effect on January 1, 2005.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
American Braille Flag Memorial Act

Bill: 110-hr-4169
Sponsor: Rep. Tiahrt, Todd [R-KS-4]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Blind
Cemeteries and funerals
Commemorations
Disabled
Flags
Military personnel
Monuments and memorials
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to place in Arlington National Cemetery an American Braille tactile flag honoring blind members of the Armed Forces, veterans, and other Americans.
 
Grants the Secretary exclusive authority to approve an appropriate design and site within Arlington National Cemetery for the memorial.

action_date: 2008-02-14
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to place in Arlington National Cemetery an American Braille tactile flag honoring blind members of the Armed Forces, veterans, and other Americans.
 
Grants the Secretary exclusive authority to approve an appropriate design and site within Arlington National Cemetery for the memorial.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2008-02-25
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 396 - 0 (Roll no. 65). (text: CR 2/13/2008 H912)
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 396 - 0 (Roll no. 65).(text: CR 2/13/2008 H912)
action_date: 2008-02-14
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H968-969)
action_date: 2008-02-13
text: At the conclusion of debate, the Yeas and Nays were demanded and ordered. Pursuant to the provisions of clause 8, rule XX, the Chair announced that further proceedings on the motion would be postponed.
action_date: 2008-02-13
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 4169.
action_date: 2008-02-13
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H912-914)
action_date: 2008-02-13
text: Mr. Rodriguez moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2007-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2396)
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
To revise the boundaries of the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System with respect to Daufuskie Island, South Carolina.

Bill: 110-hr-4170
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Barrier islands
Coastal zone
Government Operations and Politics
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Reefs
South Carolina

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 
Replaces the John H. Chafee Coastal Barrier Resources System map subtitled &quot;Daufuski Island Unit M13 Turtle Island Unit SC-10P&quot; with another map.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
To name the national cemetery to be constructed in Columbia, South Carolina as the Floyd Spence National Cemetery at Fort Jackson, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-4171
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Joe [R-SC-2]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Cemeteries and funerals
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
House of Representatives
Names
South Carolina

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 
Designates the national cemetery to be constructed at Fort Jackson in Columbia, South Carolina, as the &quot;Floyd Spence National Cemetery at Fort Jackson.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in House