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A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the resources eligible for the renewable energy credit to kinetic hydropower, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-425
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2007-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Energy
Estuaries
Hydroelectric power
Income tax
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Ocean currents
Ocean energy resources
Tax credits
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include kinetic hydropower as a renewable resource eligible for the tax credit for electricity produced from certain renewable resources. Defines &quot;kinetic hydropower&quot; as: (1) ocean free flowing water derived from flows from tidal currents, ocean currents, waves, or estuary currents; (2) ocean thermal energy; or (3) free flowing water in rivers, lakes, man made channels, or streams.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1292)
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1292)
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Biofuels Investment Trust Fund Act

Bill: 110-s-426
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Ben [D-NE]
Introduced: 2007-01-29 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Biomass energy
Cellulose
Economics and Public Finance
Energy research
Federal aid to research
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government trust funds
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: 
Biofuels Investment Trust Fund Act - Establishes a Biofuels Investment Trust Fund consisting of transferred amounts received in the U.S. Treasury from duties collected on imports of ethyl alcohol or any mixture containing ethyl alcohol that is to be used as a fuel or in producing a mixture of gasoline and alcohol, a mixture of a special fuel and alcohol, or any other mixture to be used as a fuel (including motor fuel). Directs the Secretary of Energy to use amounts in the Trust Fund to: (1) provide assistance to farmers, producers, biorefiners, researchers, universities, and other persons or entities involved in the research, development, and deployment, or production of biofuels, especially for cellulosic ethanol production; or (2) advance research, development, and deployment of biofuels, especially cellulosic ethanol produced from biomass feedstocks.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1293)
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1292-1293)
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Introduced in Senate
Affordable Housing Expansion and Public Safety Act

Bill: 110-s-427
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Affordable housing
Armed Forces and National Security
Authorization
Commerce
Commercialization
Crime prevention
Defense budgets
Defense procurement
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Energy research
Federal aid to housing
Fighter aircraft
Fossil fuels
Government spending reductions
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
High technology
Housing subsidies
Joint ventures
Low-income housing
Manufacturing industries
Rent
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: 
Affordable Housing Expansion and Public Safety Act - Instructs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Secretary) to provide an additional 100,000 incremental vouchers for tenant-based rental housing assistance under the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program in FY2008. 
 
Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to direct: (1) each participating jurisdiction to use Home Investments Partnership (HOME) grant funds to provide affordable housing to individuals or families whose income is 30% or lower than the area median income (extremely low-income); and (2) direct the Secretary to allocate HOME funds to such jurisdictions on a specified pro-rata basis.
 
Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to: (1) extend to FY2012 the authorization of appropriations for the Public and Assisted Housing Crime and Drug Elimination Program (PHDEP); (2) set aside specified amounts for the Office of Policy Development and Research; (3) identify activities eligible for grant funds; and (4) require the Office to review research to assess strategies likely to be effective in preventing and reducing violent and drug-related crimes in public and federally assisted low-income housing.
 
Expresses the sense of the Senate that Congress shall create a national affordable housing trust fund to supply 1.5 million additional affordable housing units over the next 10 years, especially for extremely low-income and very low-income families.
 
Repeals multiyear procurement authority for the F-22A Raptor Fighter Aircraft.
 
Prohibits the Secretary of Energy from implementing the advanced research program for fossil fuels.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1331-1332)
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1328-1331)
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
National Guard Empowerment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-430
Sponsor: Sen. Bond, Christopher S. [R-MO]
Introduced: 2007-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Air force
Armed forces reserves
Army
Biological warfare
Chemical warfare
Computer crimes
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Defense budgets
Defense contracts
Defense procurement
Department of Defense
Disaster relief
Disasters
Earthquakes
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Executive reorganization
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Hurricanes
Labor and Employment
Military and naval supplies
Military civic action
Military command and control
Military promotions
Military training
National Guard
Nuclear terrorism
Officer personnel
Science, Technology, Communications
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: 
National Guard Empowerment Act of 2007 - Expands the: (1) authority of the Chief of the National Guard Bureau (Bureau) to include membership on the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) (and raises the grade of the Chief from lieutenant general to general); and (2) functions of the Bureau to include facilitating and coordinating, with other federal agencies and the states, the use of Guard personnel and resources for, and in, contingency operations, military operations other than war, natural disasters, and support of civil authorities.
 
Directs the Chief to: (1) identify gaps between federal and state capabilities to prepare for and respond to emergencies; and (2) make recommendations to the Secretary of Defense on Guard programs and activities to address such gaps.
 
Requires annual Department of Defense (DOD) budget justification documents to include separate amounts for Guard training and equipment for military assistance to civil authorities and other domestic operations.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress calling for consideration of eligible reserve officers for promotion to the grades of lieutenant general or vice admiral on the active duty list.
 
Treats service as a Bureau adjutant general as joint duty experience.
 
Requires the position of Deputy Commander of the U.S. Northern Command to be filled by a qualified Guard officer eligible for promotion to the grade of lieutenant general.
 
Requires an annual plan for the use of the Armed Forces and National Guard for responding to disasters and acts of terrorism.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1302-1305)
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Kidney Disease Educational Benefits Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-432
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2007-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Health education
Kidney diseases
Medical fees
Medical personnel
Medicare
Nurses
Physicians
Preventive medicine
Social Welfare
Social work

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: 
Kidney Disease Educational Benefits Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare coverage of kidney disease education services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Children's Health Equity Technical Amendments Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-434
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Health insurance
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: 
Children's Health Equity Technical Amendments Act of 2007 - Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance Program) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to permit qualifying states to use up to 20% of their SCHIP allotment for any fiscal year (currently, only for FY1998-FY2007) for certain Medicaid expenditures for individuals under age 19 whose family income exceeds 150% of the poverty line.
 
Revises the eligibility requirements for such allowable expenditures to reduce the family income threshold from a minimum of 150% of the poverty line to a minimum of 125% of the poverty line.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1344-1345)
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1344)
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Essential Air Service Preservation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-435
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Access to airports
Airline passenger traffic
Airlines
Airports
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Small towns
Subsidies
Urban affairs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: 
Essential Air Service Preservation Act of 2007 - Repeals the mandate for the Essential Air Service local participation program (a pilot program under which up to 10 designated essential air service communities located near hub airports shall assume 10% of their essential air service subsidy costs for a four-year period).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1346)
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1345)
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Presidential Funding Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-436
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Agriculture in foreign trade
Appropriations
Campaign funds
Checkoff
Computer software
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Election candidates
Electronic government information
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign trade promotion
Fund raising
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government trust funds
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Marketing of farm produce
Political conventions
Political parties
Presidential elections
Primaries
Science, Technology, Communications
Soft money
Tax returns
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: 
Presidential Funding Act of 2007 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to public financing of presidential election campaigns to: (1) quadruple (1:1 to 4:1) the matching rate for contributions to primary election candidates; (2) lower from $250 to $200 the limit on individual campaign contributions; (3) increase the presidential primary qualifying threshold from $5,000 to $25,000 in 20 states; (4) require presidential candidates to participate in the primary payment system to be eligible for general election payments; (5) move the starting date for payments to primary candidates from January 1 of a presidential election year to six months before the earliest state primary election; (6) allow additional payments and increased expenditure limits for candidates who face opponents who do not participate in public financing and who raise more than 20% of applicable spending limits; (7) designate the last Friday before the first Monday in September as the date for payments to eligible presidential candidates; and (8) increase from $3 to $10 the presidential campaign tax return check-off amount.

Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to: (1) increase expenditure limits for presidential primary campaigns and eliminate state primary spending limits; (2) limit political party general election campaign expenditures to $25 million, with an additional $25 million allowance after the party's candidate is nominated; (3) prohibit political parties from spending unregulated funds (soft money) on their national conventions; and (4) require presidential campaign committees to disclose information about bundled contributions (series of contributions aggregating more than $10,000).

Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to reduce funding for the market access program by $100 million in FY2007.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1348-1351)
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1346-1348)
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the conveyance of an A-12 Blackbird aircraft to the Minnesota Air National Guard Historical Foundation.

Bill: 110-s-437
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2007-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Airports
Foundations
Government Operations and Politics
Military aircraft
Minnesota
Social Welfare
Surplus government property

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to the Minnesota Air National Guard Historical Foundation, Inc., an A-12 Blackbird aircraft with tail number 60-6931 that is under the jurisdiction of the National Museum of the United States Air Force, and as of January 1, 2007, was on loan to the Foundation and on display with the 133rd Airlift Wing at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, Minnesota.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1351)
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1351)
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Prescription Drug Competition Act

Bill: 110-s-438
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2007-01-30 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Generic drugs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: 
Fair Prescription Drug Competition Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit a holder of a new, approved drug application from commencing to manufacture, market, sell, or distribute a generic version of such drug from the time of the receipt of notice from the generic manufacturer that an abbreviated new drug application has been submitted for approval until the expiration or forfeiture of the exclusivity period granted to the generic manufacturer. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1352)
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1351-1352)
action_date: 2007-01-30
text: Introduced in Senate
Retired Pay Restoration Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-439
Sponsor: Sen. Reid, Harry [D-NV]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Labor and Employment
Military pensions
Retired military personnel
Veterans' disability compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Retired Pay Restoration Act of 2007 - Allows the receipt of both military retired pay and veterans' disability compensation with respect to any service-connected disability (currently, only a disability rated at 50 percent or more). States that, in the case of a qualified retiree receiving veterans' disability compensation for a disability rated as total by reason of unemployability, payment of military retired pay is subject to a phase-in of concurrent receipt of both only during the period beginning on January 1, 2004, and ending on December 31, 2007 (currently September 30, 2009).
 
Makes eligible for the full concurrent receipt of both veterans' disability compensation and either military retired pay or combat-related special pay those individuals who were retired or separated from military service due to a service-connected disability.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1412-1413)
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1411-1412)
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the National Museum of Wildlife Art, located at 2820 Rungius Road, Jackson, Wyoming, as the "National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States".

Bill: 110-s-440
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Animals
Art
Commemorations
Museums
Names
Wildlife
Wyoming

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Designates the National Museum of Wildlife Art located at 2820 Rungius Road, Jackson, Wyoming, as the &quot;National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States.&quot; 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to permit certain school districts in Illinois to be reconstituted for purposes of determining assistance under the Impact Aid program.

Bill: 110-s-441
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Illinois
Impact aid
School districts
Secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Considers five specified Illinois school districts to be local educational agencies (LEAs) for purposes of the Impact Aid program, which compensates LEAs for the financial burden of federal activities affecting their school districts.
 
Considers federally connected students in such districts to be attending schools in one such district, North Chicago Community Unit School District 187, for the purpose of making that district eligible for Impact Aid. Conditions such treatment on the agreement of the five school districts to apportion such assistance equitably among all five of them, and to use it only for direct educational services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1413)
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 110-s-443
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Arts, Culture, Religion
Auditing
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Colorado
Commemorations
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Exhibitions
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Hispanic Americans
Historic sites
History
Indian lands
Land use
Landowners
Landscape protection
Maps
Minorities
Mountains
National forests
National parks
Native Americans
Natural areas
Nonprofit organizations
Planning
Public meetings
Public-private partnerships
Recreation areas
Right of property
Signs and signboards
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
State parks
Water Resources Development
Water rights
West (U.S.)
Wilderness areas
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area in Colorado. Designates the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area Board of Directors as the management entity for the Heritage Area. Requires the Board to prepare and submit a management plan for the Heritage Area. 

action_date: 2007-09-17
text: 
Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area in Colorado, which shall consist of the Counties of Alamosa, Conejos, and Costilla and the Monte Vista National Wildlife Refuge, the Baca National Wildlife Refuge, the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve, and other areas identified on a specified map for the Heritage Area. Requires the Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area Board to prepare and submit a management plan for the Heritage Area. 

Authorizes appropriations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 368.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-170.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-170.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-73.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate