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To suspend temporarily the duty on Polycaprolactone Acrylate.

Bill: 110-hr-4444
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, Ron [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2007-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Polycaprolactone Acrylate.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Polycaprolactone Diol #1.

Bill: 110-hr-4445
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, Ron [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2007-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Polycaprolactone Diol #1.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Polycaprolactone Triol.

Bill: 110-hr-4446
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, Ron [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2007-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Polycaprolactone Triol.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on Polycaprolactone Diol #2.

Bill: 110-hr-4447
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, Ron [R-KY-2]
Introduced: 2007-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on Polycaprolactone Diol #2.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
To suspend temporarily the duty on capacitor grade homopolymer polypropylene resin in primary form.

Bill: 110-hr-4448
Sponsor: Rep. Olver, John W. [D-MA-1]
Introduced: 2007-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to suspend temporarily the duty on capacitor grade homopolymer polypropylene resin in primary form.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
Prescribe A Book Act

Bill: 110-hr-4449
Sponsor: Rep. Payne, Donald M. [D-NJ-10]
Introduced: 2007-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Books
Child health
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Grants-in-aid
Health
Nonprofit organizations
Parent and child
Reading
Social Welfare
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: 
Prescribe A Book Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a Pediatric Early Literacy program under which the Secretary of Education awards matching grants to nonprofit organizations for the implementation of three-part models through which: (1) health care providers encourage parents to read aloud to their children and offer them recommendations and strategies for doing so; (2) health care providers give each visiting child between the ages of six months and five-years a new, developmentally appropriate children's book to take home and keep; and (3) volunteers reading to children in health care facility waiting areas show parents the techniques and pleasures of reading aloud to children.
 
Requires that the books provided to children under the program be obtained at a discount.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivorship Research and Quality of Life Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4450
Sponsor: Rep. Solis, Hilda L. [D-CA-32]
Introduced: 2007-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Cancer
Case management
Child health
Clinics
Comprehensive health care
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Health information systems
Health surveys
Higher education
Medical education
Medical research
Medical statistics
Mental health services
Minority health
Preventive medicine
Quality of care
Quality of life
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: 
Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Cancer Survivorship Research and Quality of Life Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to expand and intensify CDC's cancer control programs. Requires the Secretary to: (1) provide guidance to states, in collaboration with the Director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), on interventions that may be incorporated into state cancer control programs to improve the long-term health status of childhood cancer survivors; (2) encourage states to incorporate strategies for improving their care into their comprehensive cancer plans; (3) collaborate with the NCI Director to improve or develop systems for tracking cancer survivors; and (4) enhance control programs to include a focus on childhood cancer survivorship.

Directs the NCI Director to: (1) coordinate National Institutes of Health (NIH) activities regarding cancer survivorship; (2) make grants for research regarding pediatric cancer survivors and health disparities in cancer survivorship within minority populations; (3) conduct or support research to evaluate followup care for childhood cancer survivors; and (4) make grants to establish pilot programs to develop, study, or evaluate model systems for monitoring and caring for cancer survivors.

Directs the Secretary to make grants to: (1) establish or improve training programs for health care professionals to improve followup care for young cancer survivors and to ensure that such care is linguistically and culturally competent; (2) pay costs incurred during the first four years of operating a clinic for comprehensive long-term followup services for childhood cancer survivors; and (3) improve physical and psychosocial care for such survivors. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
MRSA Research and Study Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4451
Sponsor: Rep. Stearns, Cliff [R-FL-6]
Introduced: 2007-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Bacterial diseases
Drug resistance in microorganisms
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Higher education
Medical research
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: 
MRSA Research and Study Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to establish a six-year program under which the Secretary shall award competitive two-year grants to public or private universities or affiliated teaching hospitals to conduct research into preventing, treating, and finding the cure for Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus. Requires the Secretary to award at least 25 grants during each two-year period of the program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
CAH Designation Waiver Authority Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4452
Sponsor: Rep. Thornberry, Mac [R-TX-13]
Introduced: 2007-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Medicare
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: 
CAH Designation Waiver Authority Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act with respect to the Medicare rural hospital flexibility program a state may establish.
 
Authorizes state designation of a Medicare critical access hospital (CAH), even if it does not comply with the requirement that it be located more than a 35-mile drive from another hospital, if it is certified by the state on or after enactment of this Act as being a necessary provider of health care services to residents in the area. (Thus restores state authority that existed before January 1, 2006, to waive the 35-mile rule.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
Wildlife Without Borders Authorization Act

Bill: 110-hr-4455
Sponsor: Rep. Young, Don [R-AK-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Commerce
Environmental Protection
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
Nongovernmental organizations
Public-private partnerships
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife management

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: 
Wildlife Without Borders Authorization Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to carry out a Wildlife Without Borders Program within the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to provide international wildlife conservation assistance through the initiation, facilitation, and promotion of locally adapted wildlife management and conservation programs in coordination with non-governmental organizations, governments, private businesses, and community leaders. 

Specifies the species, regional, and global program components that shall be included in the Wildlife Without Borders Program. Permits the Secretary, in the administration of the Wildlife Without Borders Program, to accept donated funds and to use them for capacity building, grants, and other on-the-ground uses carried out under the regional and global program components authorized by this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-12-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E2537)
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Luis A. Gonzalez and Virginia Aguilla Gonzalez.

Bill: 110-hr-4456
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2007-12-11 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Provides for the relief of Luis A. Gonzalez and Virginia Aguilla Gonzalez.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-01-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-11
text: Introduced in House
To establish the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area and the Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-4457
Sponsor: Rep. Thompson, Bennie G. [D-MS-2]
Introduced: 2007-12-12 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Archaeology
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Cultural property
Environmental Protection
Exhibitions
Historic sites
History
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Nature conservation
Outdoor recreation
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: 
Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area Act of 2007 - Establishes the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area. Designates the Mississippi Delta National Heritage Partnership as the coordinating entity for the Area. Requires the Partnership to develop and submit a management plan for the Area.

Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area Act of 2007 - Establishes the Mississippi Hills National Heritage Area. Designates the Mississippi Hills Heritage Area Alliance as the coordinating entity for the Area. Requires the Alliance to develop and submit a management plan for the Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in House
Small Business Regulatory Improvement Act

Bill: 110-hr-4458
Sponsor: Rep. Ellsworth, Brad [D-IN-8]
Introduced: 2007-12-12 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law
Regulatory impact statements
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: 
Small Business Regulatory Improvement Act - Revises the Regulatory Flexibility Act. Defines the &quot;economic impact&quot; of a rule to include any direct or indirect economic effects on small entities. 

Requires initial regulatory flexibility analyses of a proposed rule to contain a detailed statement describing the type of small entities to which the proposed rule will apply.

Revises provisions requiring the publication by each agency of a plan for the periodic review of its rules that have a significant impact on a substantial number of small entities to determine whether they should be continued, changed, or rescinded, including to: (1) limit to two years the amount of time the period for reviewing an agency's regulations may be extended; and (2) require each agency to report annually on review results to Congress and to the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

Requires an agency to notify the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration of any draft rules that may have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities either: (1) when the agency submits a draft rule to the such Office, if submission is required; or (2) if no submission to the Office is so required, at a reasonable time before publication of the rule by the agency.

Requires that final regulatory flexibility analyses include the agency's response to any comments filed on a rule by the Chief Counsel and a detailed statement of any changes made as a result. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 26 - 0.
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2007-12-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2007-12-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Small Business, 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: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in House
To amend section 404 of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to allow public institutions of higher education to use the employment eligibility confirmation system established under that section to verify immigration status for purposes of determining eligibility for in-State tuition.

Bill: 110-hr-4459
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2007-12-12 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: College costs
Colleges
Data banks
Electronic data interchange
Foreign students
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Illegal aliens
Immigration
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: 
Amends the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to allow public institutions of higher education to use the employment eligibility confirmation system to verify the immigration status of current or prospective students for the purpose of determining their eligibility for in-state tuition. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2008-01-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-12-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-12-12
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in House
Health Care Choice Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-4460
Sponsor: Rep. Shadegg, John B. [R-AZ-3]
Introduced: 2007-12-12 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Capital
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health care fraud
Health insurance
Insurance companies
Insurance premiums
Medically uninsured
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: 
Health Care Choice Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide that the laws of the state designated by a health insurance issuer (primary state) shall apply to individual health insurance coverage offered by that issuer in the primary state and in any other state (secondary state), but only if the coverage and issuer comply with the conditions of this Act.

Exempts issuers from any secondary state's laws that would prohibit or regulate the operation of the issuer in such state, subject to certain restrictions imposed by such state.

Specifies the notice that an issuer must provide in any insurance coverage offered in a secondary state and at renewal of the policy.

Requires each issuer issuing individual health insurance coverage in both primary and secondary states to submit to: (1) the insurance commissioners of such states a copy of the plan of operation or feasibility study and written notice of any change in its designation of its primary state and of its compliance with all the laws of the primary state; and (2) the insurance commission of each secondary state a copy of the issuer's quarterly financial statement that was submitted to the primary state.

Prohibits an issuer from offering, selling, or issuing individual health insurance coverage in a secondary state if the state insurance commissioner does not use a risk-based capital formula for the determination of capital and surplus requirements for all issuers.

Gives sole jurisdiction to the primary state to enforce the primary state's covered laws in the primary state and any secondary state. 

Requires the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on the effect of this Act on specified health insurance issues.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in House
Code Talkers Recognition Act

Bill: 110-hr-4462
Sponsor: Rep. Granger, Kay [R-TX-12]
Introduced: 2007-12-12 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Arts, Culture, Religion
Congress
Congressional gold medals
Government Operations and Politics
History
Military communications
Military history
Minorities
Museums
Native Americans
Smithsonian Institution

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: 
Code Talkers Recognition Act - Directs the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President pro tempore of the Senate to arrange for: (1) the award on behalf of Congress of a single gold medal of appropriate design to honor the Native American members of the U.S. Armed Forces, collectively, who served as Code Talkers in any foreign conflict in which the United States was involved during the 20th century for display in the Smithsonian Institution; and (2) presentation of a gold duplicate of such medal to each Indian tribe that had tribal members who served as such Code Talkers. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to strike: (1) silver duplicates for transmittal to each individual who served as a Code Talker (or next of kin); and (2) bronze duplicates for public sale.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in House
Common Sense English Act

Bill: 110-hr-4464
Sponsor: Rep. Price, Tom [R-GA-6]
Introduced: 2007-12-12 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Discrimination in employment
English language
Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: 
Common Sense English Act - Amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to declare that, notwithstanding any other provision of the equal employment opportunities provisions of the Act, it is not an unlawful employment practice for an employer to require employees to speak English while engaged in work.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-02-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-12-12
text: Introduced in House