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Public Housing Drug Elimination Program Reauthorization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-174
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Authorization
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drug abuse treatment
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to housing
Government Operations and Politics
Housing subsidies
Juvenile delinquency
Low-income housing
Public housing
Residential rehabilitation
School-age child care
Security measures
Social Welfare
Violence
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Public Housing Drug Elimination Program Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to authorize appropriations for the assisted housing drug elimination program. 
Limits activities for programs designed to reduce drug use in and around assisted low-income housing to: (1) providing drug abuse treatment through rehabilitation or relapse prevention; (2) providing education about the dangers and consequences of drug use or violent crime; (3) identifying drug users, and assisting drug use discontinuance through education or treatment programs; (4) providing after school youth activities; and (5) providing capital improvements and security services to discourage or eliminate drug use or violent crime.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To provide assistance to combat HIV/AIDS in India, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-175
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Economic assistance
Health
Human immunodeficiency viruses
India
South Asia
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to provide assistance to combat HIV/AIDS in India.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Pursuit of International Education (PIE) Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-177
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Appropriations
Caribbean area
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Colleges
Cuba
Department of the Treasury
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
International education
Latin America
Law
Licenses
Right to travel
Sanctions (International law)

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Pursuit of International Education (PIE) Act of 2007 - Prohibits the use of funds made available to the Department of the Treasury to implement, administer, or enforce regulations to require specific licenses for travel-related transactions directly related to educational activities in Cuba.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
JUSTICE Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-178
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Community health services
Condoms
Congressional reporting requirements
Correctional personnel
Cost accounting
Criminal statistics
Economics and Public Finance
Employee training
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health
Health counseling
Health education
Health planning
Health surveys
Labor and Employment
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Performance measurement
Preventive medicine
Prison violence
Prisoners
Prisoners' rights
Prisons
Rape
Sex education
Sexually transmitted diseases
State laws
Surveys

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Justice for the Unprotected Against Sexually Transmitted Infections among the Confined and Exposed Act of 2007 or the JUSTICE Act of 2007 - Requires the Attorney General to direct the Bureau of Prisons to allow community organizations to distribute sexual barrier protection devices (e.g., condoms) and to engage in sexually transmitted infection (STI) counseling and prevention education in federal correctional facilities. Prohibits a federal correctional facility from taking adverse action against a prisoner who possesses or uses a sexual barrier protection device.

Expresses the sense of Congress that states should allow for the legal distribution of sexual barrier protection devices in their correctional facilities. 

Directs the Attorney General to: (1) conduct a survey of all educational, testing, and other programs in federal and state correctional facilities for reducing the spread of STIs; and (2) develop and implement a five-year strategy to reduce the prevalence and spread of STIs in such facilities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10796)
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Peace Stamp for the Peace Corps Act

Bill: 110-hr-181
Sponsor: Rep. Lee, Barbara [D-CA-9]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Americans in foreign countries
Economics and Public Finance
Peace Corps
Postage stamps
Social Welfare
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Peace Stamp for the Peace Corps Act - Directs the U.S. Postal Service to issue a semipostal (a postage stamp sold at a premium in order to help provide funding for certain causes) to benefit the Peace Corps.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign 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: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign 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: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign 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: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
TEAM up for Energy Independence Act

Bill: 110-hr-182
Sponsor: Rep. Lofgren, Zoe [D-CA-16]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Automobiles
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Electric vehicles
Energy
Excise tax
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Labeling
Natural gas vehicles
Service stations
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
To Encourage Alternatively fueled vehicle Manufacturing up for Energy Independence Act of 2007 or the TEAM up for Energy Independence Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax on the first retail sale of each passenger automobile sold by manufacturers, producers, or importers. Exempts alternative fueled automobiles from such tax. 

Amends federal transportation law to revise the definitons of &quot;automobile&quot; and &quot;passenger automobile&quot; to increase the gross vehicle weight limit from 6,000 to 10,000 pounds.

Directs the Secretary of Energy to make grants for alternative fuel refueling infrastructure projects from a trust fund into which revenues from the excise tax on passenger automobiles shall be deposited.

Amends the Automobile Information Disclosure Act to require labeling for new automobiles to indicate: (1) whether a new automobile is an alternative fueled automobile; and (2) the types of fuel on which such automobile can operate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E19)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To authorize the project for hurricane and storm damage reduction, Morganza to the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana.

Bill: 110-hr-183
Sponsor: Rep. Melancon, Charlie [D-LA-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Canals
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal aid to water resources development
Floods
Gulf of Mexico
Hurricanes
Intracoastal waterways
Louisiana
Maintenance and repair
Navigation
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Army to carry out the hurricane and storm damage reduction project, Morganza to the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, in accordance with the Chief of Engineer's reports of August 23, 2002, and July 22, 2003, at specified federal and non-federal costs. 
 
Requires the Secretary to credit toward the non-federal share of the cost of the project the cost of design and construction work carried out by the non-federal interest before the date of the partnership agreement for the project if the work is integral to the project. 
 
Makes the operation, maintenance, repair, rehabilitation, and replacement of the Houma Navigation Canal lock complex and the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway floodgate features of the project that provide for inland waterway transportation a federal responsibility.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To extend for 1 year the availability of supplemental social services block grant funding.

Bill: 110-hr-184
Sponsor: Rep. Melancon, Charlie [D-LA-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Alabama
Block grants
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Government Operations and Politics
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Mississippi

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
 Extends through FY2008 the availability of certain supplemental social services block grant funding under title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services) of the Social Security Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Livestock Assistance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-185
Sponsor: Rep. Musgrave, Marilyn N. [R-CO-4]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural subsidies
Animals
Colorado
Disaster relief
Droughts
Emergency Management
Indemnity
Kansas
Livestock
Nebraska
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Storms
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Livestock Assistance Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide: (1) payments through the 2002 livestock compensation program for qualifying livestock disaster losses due to blizzard and drought in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Oklahoma; and (2) livestock indemnity payments to producers who have incurred livestock disaster losses in 2006 or 2007, or both, including blizzard and drought losses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Arkansas Valley Conduit Act

Bill: 110-hr-186
Sponsor: Rep. Musgrave, Marilyn N. [R-CO-4]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Colorado
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to water resources development
Infrastructure
Pipelines
Transportation and Public Works
Water districts
Water supply

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Arkansas Valley Conduit Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to plan, design, and construct a water delivery pipeline, to be known as the Arkansas Valley Conduit, from a location in the vicinity of Pueblo Reservoir, Pueblo, to Lamar, Colorado.
 
Designates the Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District, or its designee that is recognized under State law as an entity that has taxing authority, as the lead non-federal entity for the Conduit. Directs such entity to: (1) act as the official agent of the Conduit; (2) pay the non-federal share of any increased costs, including construction costs, under this Act; and (3) pay costs for and perform the operations, maintenance, and replacement of the Conduit. Sets the federal share of: (1) total planning, design, and construction costs at 80%; and (2) any increased costs that are a result of fundamental design changes conducted at the request of anyone other than such entity at 100%. Directs the Secretary, upon completion, to transfer ownership of the Conduit to such entity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse and customhouse located at 515 West First Street in Duluth, Minnesota, as the "Gerald W. Heaney Federal Building and United States Courthouse and Customhouse".

Bill: 110-hr-187
Sponsor: Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Courthouses
Federal office buildings
Judges
Law
Minnesota
Names

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Designates the federal building and U.S. courthouse and customhouse located at 515 West First Street in Duluth, Minnesota, as the &quot;Gerald W. Heaney Federal Building and United States Courthouse and Customhouse.&quot;

action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 

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

Designates the federal building and U.S. courthouse and customhouse located at 515 West First Street in Duluth, Minnesota, as the &quot;Gerald W. Heaney Federal Building and United States Courthouse and Customhouse.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-04
text: For Further Action See S.521.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Committee Agreed to Seek Consideration Under Suspension of the Rules, by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1299)
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H1299)
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 187.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1299-1300)
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Mr. Oberstar moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E20)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
To amend title II of the Social Security Act and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide prospectively that wages earned, and self-employment income derived, by individuals who are not citizens or nationals of the United States shall not be credited for coverage under the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program under such title, and to provide the President with authority to enter into agreements with other nations taking into account such limitation on crediting of wages and self-employment income.

Bill: 110-hr-190
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Aliens
Earnings
Immigration
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Self-employed
Social security eligibility
Treaties
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Social Security for Americans Only Act of 2007 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) prohibit the wages earned, and self-employment income derived, by individuals who are not U.S. citizens or nationals from being credited for coverage under the OASDI program; and (2) authorize the President to enter into (totalization) agreements with other nations to resolve entitlement and participation questions about their respective social security systems, taking into account such limitation on the crediting of wages and self-employment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E7)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act

Bill: 110-hr-191
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Railroad retirement plans
Social Welfare
Social security beneficiaries
Tax exclusion
Tax rates
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Senior Citizens Tax Elimination Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the inclusion of any social security or tier I railroad retirement benefits in gross income.
 
Appropriates funds to cover reductions in transfers to the Social Security and Railroad Retirement Trust Funds resulting from the enactment of this Act. Expresses the sense of Congress against using tax increases to provide revenue necessary to carry out this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Beneficiary Tax Reduction Act

Bill: 110-hr-192
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Income tax
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Railroad retirement plans
Social Welfare
Social security beneficiaries
Tax exclusion
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Social Security Beneficiary Tax Reduction Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal, effective January 1, 2007, the 1993 increase in income taxes on Social Security benefits.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
Make College Affordable Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-193
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-01-04 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Education
Finance and Financial Sector
Higher education
Income tax
Interest
Labor and Employment
Student loan funds
Tax deductions
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: 
Make College Affordable Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow taxpayers, their spouses, dependents, and grandchildren a tax deduction from gross income for certain higher education expenses and for interest on certain student loans. Includes as higher education expenses undergraduate tuition and fees and reasonable living expenses while attending an institution of higher education.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E20)
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-04
text: Introduced in House