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Clean Air Attainment Enforcement Act

Bill: 110-s-1786
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2007-07-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Air pollution control
Fees
Gases
Motor vehicle pollution control
Nitrogen oxides
Ozone
Smog
Solvents
Standards
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: 
Clean Air Attainment Enforcement Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to declare that if a state in which a covered (nonattainment) area is located does not submit a required implementation plan (for achieving and maintaining national ambient air quality standards), the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): (1) shall not have discretion to select whether highway and emission offset sanctions will be imposed on the covered area; and (2) shall impose such sanctions, with a specified exception regarding the emission offset requirements.
 
Requires implementation plan revisions relating to the attainment plans for serious, severe, and extreme areas to require each major stationary source located in a covered area that emits VOCs (volatile organic compounds) or NOx (oxides of nitrogen) to pay the Administrator a fee as a penalty for the failure to attain the standard for ozone by the attainment date. Requires the Administrator: (1) upon approval of a state implementation plan, to annually determine whether a covered area is making sufficient progress to achieve attainment; (2) to impose on each major stationary source located in the covered area a penalty for failure to meet a national primary ambient air quality standard for ozone; and (3) to suspend the imposition of such penalties if a covered area is making sufficient progress for the current calendar year. 
 
Requires such fees and actions by the Administrator with respect to implementation plan revision requirements for major stationary sources that emit PM2.5 (particulate matter with a diameter less than or equal to 2.5 micrometers).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Students College, Career, and Community Readiness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1787
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-07-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Career education
Community and school
Compensatory education
Congressional reporting requirements
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational counseling
Educational planning
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Leadership
Nonprofit organizations
Rural education
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: 
Rural Students College, Career, and Community Readiness Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Education to award grants to up to two nonprofit organizations to conduct higher education and career readiness demonstration projects. 
 
Requires grantees to partner with rural local educational agencies and schools to enroll a cohort of seventh grade students and a cohort of ninth grade students into the demonstration projects, which are to provide such students with approximately 25 hours of informational and educational services in each grade through grade 12 that prepare them for higher education and a successful career.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9212)
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the mandatory revocation of passports of individuals whose child support payments are more than $2,500 in arrears.

Bill: 110-s-1788
Sponsor: Sen. Roberts, Pat [R-KS]
Introduced: 2007-07-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Child support
Collection of accounts
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Immigration
Law
Passports

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: 
Amends title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) of the Social Security Act to provide for the mandatory revocation of passports of individuals who are more than $2,500 in arrears in child support payments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S9212-9213)
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Communities of Color Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1790
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Academic performance
Child health
Contraceptives
Counseling
Data banks
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Ethics
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family planning and birth control
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health counseling
Health education
Health information systems
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Immigrant health
Immigration
Medical research
Medical statistics
Mental health
Minorities
Minority health
Nonprofit organizations
Parent and child
Public service advertising
School health programs
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Sex education
Sexual abstinence
Sexually transmitted diseases
Social Welfare
Teenage pregnancy
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: 
Communities of Color Teen Pregnancy Prevention Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make grants for projects to prevent teen pregnancies in racial, ethnic minority, or immigrant communities with a substantial incidence or prevalence of cases of teen pregnancy compared to the average number in communities in the state.

Allows the Secretary to make grants to: (1) carry out activities to prevent unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections among teens; (2) provide necessary social and cultural support services regarding teen pregnancy; (3) provide health and educational services related to the prevention of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections among teens; (4) promote better health and educational outcomes among pregnant teens; and (5) provide relevant training for individuals who plan to work in school-based support programs.

Requires the Secretary to make grants to: (1) provide public education and increase awareness with respect to the issue of reducing the rates of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections among teens and related social and emotional issues; and (2) establish and operate a National Clearinghouse for Teen Pregnancy Prevention.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to make grants for research on the prevention of unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections among teens in such communities.

Allows a grant to be made under this Act only if the applicant agrees that: (1) all information provided pursuant to the Act will be age-appropriate, factually and medically accurate and complete, and scientifically based; and (2) information, activities, and services under the grant will be provided in the language and cultural context that is most appropriate for individual groups.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Biodiesel Education and Expansion Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1791
Sponsor: Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN]
Introduced: 2007-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural subsidies
Biomass energy
Diesel motor
Energy
Government vehicles
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: 
Biodiesel Education and Expansion Act of 2007 - Amends the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 to increase, and extend through FY2012, funding for the biodiesel fuel education program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate
FOREWARN Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1792
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2007-07-16 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Employee rights
Employers' liability
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Law
Layoffs
Plant shutdowns
Wage restitution

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: 
FOREWARN Act of 2007 - Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (the Act) to to revise the terms &quot;employer,&quot; &quot;plant closing,&quot; and &quot;mass layoff&quot; for purposes of the Act.
 
Requires an employer to: (1) give 90-day written notice (under current law, 60-day) to employees and appropriate state and local governments before ordering a plant closing or mass layoff; and (2) notify the Secretary of Labor within 60 days of such closing or layoff (including the number of employees involved). Makes an employer who violates such notice requirements liable to the employee for double the back pay (under current law, for back pay) for each day of the violation for up to 90 days (under current law, 60 days).
 
Authorizes the Secretary to bring a civil action on behalf of one or more employees for certain relief under the Act.
 
Directs the Secretary to make educational materials concerning employee rights and employer responsibilities available to the general public and employers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12134-12135)
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Introduced in Senate
Home Lead Safety Tax Credit Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1793
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Child safety
Costs
Environmental Protection
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Lead
Paints and varnishes
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tax credits
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: 
Home Lead Safety Tax Credit Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 50 percent of the costs of reducing lead hazards in U.S. homes built before 1960 in which certain low-income children less than six years of age and women of child-bearing age reside. Allows a maximum credit of $3,000 for lead abatement costs and $1,000 for the cost of interim lead control measures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 7/18/2007 S9472)
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Interest Relief Act

Bill: 110-s-1794
Sponsor: Sen. Bayh, Evan [D-IN]
Introduced: 2007-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Government lending
Higher education
Interest
Married people
Military dependents
Military operations
Military personnel
National Guard
Student loan funds
Veterans' benefits
War

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: 
Interest Relief Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide that no interest shall accrue on student loans under the Federal Direct Loan program for individuals and the spouses of individuals who are serving on active duty or performing National Guard duty during a war or other military operation or national emergency. Limits receipt of such benefit to 60 months.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Access to Workers' Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act

Bill: 110-s-1795
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Federal employees
Health
Nurse practitioners
Physicians' assistants
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: 
Improving Access to Workers' Compensation for Injured Federal Workers Act - Amends the Federal Employees' Compensation Act to include nurse practitioners and physician assistants as eligible providers of medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies under such Act.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-22
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 7/18/2007 S9472-9473)
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the conveyance of the Presque Isle Light Station Fresnel Lens to Presque Isle Township, Michigan.

Bill: 110-s-1796
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Commemorations
Historic sites
History
Lenses
Lighthouses and lightships
Michigan

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: 
Authorizes the Commandant of the Coast Guard to transfer to Presque Isle Township in Presque County, Michigan: (1) possession of the historic Fresnel Lens from the Presque Isle Light Station Lighthouse; and (2) any additional U.S. personal property related to the Lens that the Commandant considers appropriate for conveyance. 
 
Requires the Township, as condition of the transfer of possession, to install the Lens in the Lighthouse as a Class I private aid to navigation.
 
Instructs the Commandant, upon certification of the Commandant that the Township has installed the Lens and is able to operate the Lens and Lighthouse as a private aid to navigation, to convey to the Township all interest of the United States in and to the Lens. 
 
Allows the Commandant, if the Commandant conveys the Lens to the Township, to convey to the Township any personal property previously transferred to the Township under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Border Health Security Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1798
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Alcoholism
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Biological warfare
Boundaries
Communicable diseases
Communication in medicine
Community health services
Congressional reporting requirements
Dental care
Disasters
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency Management
Emergency communication systems
Emergency medicine
Environmental Protection
Environmental health
Epidemiology
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to health facilities
Federal aid to research
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Health education
Health information systems
Health insurance
Health surveys
Infrastructure
International Affairs
International agencies
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medical education
Medical laboratories
Medical personnel
Medical research
Medical tests
Medically uninsured
Mental health services
Mexico
Planning
Poor children
Preventive medicine
Public health
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Syndromes
Terrorism
Trauma care
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: 
Border Health Security Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary), acting through the U.S. members of the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission, to award grants to improve border residents' health. 
 
Requires the Secretary to award grants to states, local or tribal governments, trauma centers, regional trauma center coordinating entities, or public health entities for all hazards preparedness in the border area, including bioterrorism and infectious disease.
 
Authorizes appropriations to carry out the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission Act.
 
Allows the Secretary to coordinate with the Secretary of Homeland Security in establishing a health alert system that: (1) alerts clinicians and public health officials of emerging disease clusters and syndromes along the border area; and (2) is alerted to signs of health threats, disasters of mass scale, or bioterrorism along the border area.
 
Requires the Secretary to enter into a contract with the Institute of Medicine for the study of binational health infrastructure (including trauma and emergency care) and health insurance efforts.
 
Amends the United States-Mexico Border Health Commission Act to authorize any member or staff of the Commission to provide advice or recommendations to Congress concerning issues that are considered by the Commission.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR 7/18/2007 S9474)
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 7/18/2007 S9473-9474)
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to apply rate parity to the excise tax on small cigars and small cigarettes, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-1799
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2007-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Tax rates
Tobacco tax

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the excise tax rate on small cigars to $19.50 per thousand (the same rate as for small cigarettes). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 7/18/2007 S9474-9475)
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Compassionate Care for Servicewomen Act

Bill: 110-s-1800
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Contraceptives
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Health
Military medicine
Women
Women soldiers
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: 
Compassionate Care for Servicewomen Act - Requires emergency contraception to be included on the basic core formulary of the uniform formulary of pharmaceutical agents for the pharmacy benefits program of the Department of Defense.
 
States that prior authorization shall not be required for such contraception.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR 7/18/2007 S9475)
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to require a study on the relocation of the Sector Buffalo facilities of the Coast Guard, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-1801
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Coast guard
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Harbors
Land transfers
Lighthouses and lightships
New York State
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Water Resources Development
Waterfronts

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: 
Requires the Coast Guard Commandant to study an area commonly identified as Coast Guard Sector Buffalo, located in Buffalo, New York, and report to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives on the most cost-effective method for providing shore facilities and the feasibility of consolidating and relocating shore facilities on a portion of the existing site while meeting and expanding Sector Buffalo operational requirements. Requires that the report contain a preliminary plan for the design, engineering, and construction of the proposed project.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate
Idaho Wilderness Boundary Modification Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-1802
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2007-07-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Idaho
National forests
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: 
Idaho Wilderness Boundary Modification Act of 2007 - Adjusts the boundary of the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho to include and exclude specified lands. 

action_date: 2008-04-10
text: 
 Idaho Wilderness Boundary Modification Act of 2008 - Adjusts the boundary of the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho to include and exclude specified lands. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture, in order to resolve the encroachment on the land designated for exclusion, to sell the land (and up to 10 adjacent acres) for fair market value.
 
Requires the person buying the land designated for exclusion to pay: (1) asociated appraisal costs; and (2) any associated analyses and closing costs. Gives the owner of the adjacent private land the first opportunity to buy the land. 
 
Sets forth requirements for the disposition of the cash proceeds from a sale of land. Prohibits deposited amounts from being subject to transfer or reprogramming for wildland fire management or any other emergency purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 651.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-299.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-299.
action_date: 2008-01-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-216.
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Introduced in Senate