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Promoting Lifelong Active Communities Every Day Act

Bill: 110-hr-2045
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2007-04-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Bicycles
Body weight
Child health
Community health services
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Health education
Infants
Physical education and training
Physical fitness
Playgrounds
Preschool education
School health programs
Sports and Recreation
Trails
Walking

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-25
text: 
Promoting Lifelong Active Communities Every Day Act or the PLAY Every Day Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to develop the Community Play Index to measure the policy, program, or environmental barriers in communities to participating in physical activity. Requires the Index to include: (1) measurements that examine barriers to physical activities across multiple settings; and (2) measurements to assist economically and culturally diverse communities in examining the social determinants of health.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director, to award grants to state health departments for work in partnership with community-based coalitions to plan and implement model communities of play that: (1) increase the physical spaces and places available for physical activity; (2) increase the opportunities for children and families to participate in quality play and the number of children and families participating in quality play; and (3) increase knowledge and awareness about the importance of individuals achieving 60 minutes of recommended physical activity every day.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E873)
action_date: 2007-04-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-04-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-25
text: Introduced in House
Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2046
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Computer crimes
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of the Treasury
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-state relations
Fines (Penalties)
Gambling
Government Operations and Politics
Internet
Law
Licenses
Minorities
Native Americans
Science, Technology, Communications
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act of 2007 - Amends federal law governing monetary transactions to establish an Internet Gambling Licensing Program administered and enforced by the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (Director).
 
Prescribes requirements for the licensing of Internet betting or wagering.
 
Provides that activities involving investment banking, payment and transaction processing, and financial transactions are shielded from liability if they are conducted in compliance with this Act and specified law.

Authorizes states, Indian tribes and sporting leagues to prohibit internet gambling licenses.

Subjects violators of this Act to criminal penalties.

Instructs the Director to report annually to Congress on the licensing and regulation of Internet gambling operators.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, 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: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Traumatic Brain Injury Access to Options Act

Bill: 110-hr-2048
Sponsor: Rep. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN-2]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Brain
Case management
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Defense
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Head injuries
Health
Iraq compilation
Law
Medical tests
Mentally disabled
Military discharges
Military medicine
Physical examinations
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Retired military personnel
Sunset legislation
Trauma care
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' medical care
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Traumatic Brain Injury Access to Options Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to ensure that each member of the Armed Forces who incurs a traumatic brain injury (where the member is unable to perform activities of daily living for at least five consecutive days from the date of a medical assessment) while on active duty shall be retained on active duty for one year after the date of the assessment. Prohibits such member from being evaluated during the one-year period by a physical evaluation board for determining eligibility for retirement or separation due to such disability. Allows a member (or his or her guardian or legal advocate) to choose to make such requirements inapplicable to the member. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to extend the one-year period as appropriate in light of medical progress.
 
Requires annual Comptroller General assessments of traumatic brain injury care and services provided by the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Protecting America's Workers Act

Bill: 110-hr-2049
Sponsor: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Death
Department of Labor
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Economics and Public Finance
Employee rights
Employers' liability
Equipment and supplies
Federal employees
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grievance procedures
Health
Indexing (Economic policy)
Injunctions
Judicial review
Labor unions
Law
Legal fees
Local employees
Local laws
Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
Occupational health and safety
Prosecution
State employees
State laws
Victims
Wage restitution
Whistle blowing
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Protecting America's Workers Act - Amends the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSHA) to expand its coverage to federal, state, and local government employees. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Labor, under specified conditions, to cede OSHA jurisdiction to another federal agency with respect to certain occupational standards or regulations for such agency's employees. Declares OSHA inapplicable to working conditions covered by the Federal Mine Safety and Heath Act of 1977.
 
Sets forth increased protections for whistleblowers under OSHA. 
 
Increases civil and criminal penalties for certain OSHA violators. Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) victims' rights; (2) posting of employee rights; (3) investigations of fatalities and serious injuries; (4) prohibition of unclassified citations; (5) right to contest citations and penalties; and (6) objections to modifications of citations. 
 
Directs the Secretary to revise regulations and promulgate OSHA standards to require employers to provide personal protective equipment for employees at no cost to employees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E879)
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Care Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2050
Sponsor: Rep. Allen, Thomas H. [D-ME-1]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Medicaid
Mental care facilities
Mental health services
Psychiatric hospitals
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Medicaid Emergency Psychiatric Care Act of 2007 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act with respect to reimbursement for specified emergency care and services of private institutions for mental diseases subject (under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Medicaid (EMTALA) Program) to certain requirements for examination and treatment for emergency medical conditions.

Requires the Medicaid program to reimburse such institutions for care and services required to stabilize an emergency medical condition of an individual between ages 21 and 65, if the treatment is within the range of services that such institution typically provides.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Hass Avocado Quality Assurance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2051
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agriculture in foreign trade
California
Commerce
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Fruit
Marketing of farm produce
Produce trade
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Hass Avocado Quality Assurance Act of 2007 - Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to provide for mandatory minimum maturity standards for all domestic and imported Hass avocados sold to consumers in California.
 
Provides exceptions for commercial processing and charitable and relief uses.
 
Sets forth penalty provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2052
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Caregivers
Child abuse
Child health
Child safety
Crime and Law Enforcement
Families
Family services
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government publications
Government publicity
Head injuries
Health education
Health planning
Infants
Parent and child
Preventive medicine
Public service advertising
Science, Technology, Communications
Stress (Psychology)
Telephone
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Shaken Baby Syndrome Prevention Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through various federal agencies, to develop a national Shaken Baby Syndrome public health campaign. Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop a National Action Plan and effective strategies to increase awareness of opportunities to prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome; and (2) coordinate the Plan and strategies with evidence-based strategies and efforts that support families with infants and other young children. 

Directs the Secretary to carry out communication, education, and training about Shaken Baby Syndrome prevention, including efforts to communicate with the general public, such as by: (1) disseminating effective prevention practices and techniques to parents and caregivers; (2) producing evidence-based educational and information materials; and (3) carrying out Shaken Baby Syndrome training.

Requires the Secretary to work to ensure that the parents and caregivers of children are connected to effective supports through the coordination of existing programs and networks or the establishment of new programs, including a 24-hour phone hotline and the development of an Internet website for round-the-clock support.

Establishes a Shaken Baby Awareness Advisory Council to develop recommendations: (1) regarding the National Action Plan and effective strategies; and (2) related to support services for families and caregivers of young children.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Anesthesiology Teaching Funding Restoration Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2053
Sponsor: Rep. Becerra, Xavier [D-CA-31]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Anesthetics
Education
Higher education
Medical education
Medical fees
Medical residents
Medicare
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Medicare Anesthesiology Teaching Funding Restoration Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) to set forth a special payment rule of 100% of the fee schedule amount for teaching anesthesiologists involved in the training of physician residents, if certain presence and availability requirements are met.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-26
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: 2007-04-26
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: 2007-04-26
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: 2007-04-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E883)
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Universal Service Reform Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2054
Sponsor: Rep. Boucher, Rick [D-VA-9]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Arts, Culture, Religion
Broadband
Clinics
Commerce
Community health services
Congressional reporting requirements
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal Communications Commission
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Health facilities
Higher education
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Independent regulatory commissions
Libraries
Medical education
Mental care facilities
Nursing homes
Rural health
School buildings
Secondary education
State laws
Telecommunication industry
Telecommunication rates
Terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Universal Service Reform Act of 2007 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 concerning procedures for the review of universal service requirements to require the Federal-State Joint Board on universal service to complete recommendations for changes to such requirements within 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act. Includes high-speed broadband services within universal service. Directs the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to assess contributions to universal service support mechanisms from communications service providers. Provides support contribution limits. Requires the FCC to revise it's support mechanism for rural, insular, and high cost areas. 
 
 Requires communications service providers to ensure that all traffic contains or preserves sufficient information to allow traffic identification by other communications service providers that transport or terminate the traffic. 
 

 
Outlines eligibility requirements for communications service providers to receive universal service support.
 
Makes current limitations on universal service support and individual support caps imposed upon carriers inapplicable after the date of enactment of this Act.
 
Requires all residential and business lines served by an eligible telecommunications carrier to be eligible for federal universal service support.
 
Allows states to: (1) adopt regulations not inconsistent with FCC universal service rules; and (2) require communications service providers to contribute regardless of whether the service contains an interstate component.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Improving Children's Access to Health Care Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2055
Sponsor: Rep. Castor, Kathy [D-FL-11]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Citizenship
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Identification devices
Insurance premiums
Medicaid
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare
State employees
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Improving Children's Access to Health Care Act of 2007 - Provides that any state with a plan under title XIX (Medicaid) or XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) has a variety of options to promote enrollment of eligible children under such programs, including an option to create &quot;express lane eligibility.&quot;
 
Amends SSA title XIX to authorize states to require satisfactory U.S. citizenship or nationality documentation for Medicaid, including tribal membership or enrollment.
 
Give states the option to allow children of low-income state employees to enroll in SCHIP (thus ending the current mandatory exclusion of such children from SCHIP).
 
Provides for new base SCHIP allotments responsive to increases in health care costs and enrollment expansions.
 
Revises the current two-year initial availability of SCHIP allotments to limit it to fiscal years through FY2007. Requires only a one-year availability of allotments for FY2008 and succeeding fiscal years.
 
Allows a 30-day SCHIP premium grace period.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Part D Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2056
Sponsor: Rep. Courtney, Joe [D-CT-2]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Congressional reporting requirements
Drugs
Finance and Financial Sector
Governmental investigations
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Insurance premiums
Managed care
Medical economics
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Social Welfare
Subsidies

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Medicare Part D Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends part D (Voluntary Prescription Drug Benefit Program) of the Social Security Act to revise requirements for the Medicare prescription drug program with respect to: (1) counting certain expenditures towards out-of-pocket limits; (2) conforming the late enrollment penalty to the Medicare part B penalty structure; (3) allowing more frequent changes in plans; and (4) removing the asset test and eliminating late enrollment penalties for low-income subsidy eligible individuals.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to study and report to Congress on how to: (1) eliminate the gap in Medicare part D prescription drug coverage created through the application of an initial coverage limit; and (2) finance such elimination.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-26
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: 2007-04-26
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: 2007-04-26
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: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to repeal a rebuttable presumption that the use of a categorical exclusion under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 would apply with respect to actions by the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture with respect to certain activities for the purpose of exploration or development of oil or gas.

Bill: 110-hr-2057
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2007-04-26 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Energy
Energy development
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Evidence (Law)
Law
Natural gas
Oil and gas leases
Petroleum
Prospecting

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to repeal the rebuttable presumption that the use of a categorical exclusion under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 would apply to actions by either the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture in managing public lands with respect to specified activities if such activities are conducted pursuant to the Mineral Leasing Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Introduced in House