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Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2342
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Congress
Subjects: Citizen participation
Congressional districts
Congressional elections
Congressional powers
District courts
Economics and Public Finance
Federal-state relations
Gerrymandering
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Judicial review
Law
Public meetings
State courts
State laws
State legislatures
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 
Fairness and Independence in Redistricting Act of 2007 - Prohibits a state that has been redistricted after an apportionment from being redistricted again until after the next apportionment of Representatives, unless the state is ordered by a court to conduct such a subsequent redistricting in order to: (1) comply with the U.S. Constitution; or (2) enforce the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Requires such redistricting to be conducted through a plan developed by the independent redistricting commission established in the state, or if such plan is not enacted into law, the redistricting plan selected by the state's highest court or developed by a U.S. district court.

Prescribes requirements for: (1) establishment of a state independent redistricting commission; (2) development of a redistricting plan; (3) its submission to the state legislature; (4) selection of a plan, under specified conditions, by the state's highest court or the U.S. District court for the district in which the capital of the state is located; (5) special rules for redistricting conducted under a federal court order; and (6) Election Assistance Commission payments to states for carrying out redistricting.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Real Estate Transparency Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2343
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government publications
Law
Liability (Law)
Mortgage interest rates
Mortgages
Settlement costs

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 
Real Estate Transparency Act of 2007 - Amends the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 to modify requirements governing settlement statements.
 
Requires the originator of a federally related mortgage loan to provide, within three days of a loan application, a written agreement to the applicant itemizing all of the fees the originator may charge at or before loan settlement, including origination, underwriting, and broker fees. Excludes from such requirement bona fide discount points payable by the borrower to reduce the loan's interest rate.
 
Requires an originator fee agreement to set out the following fee payment methods: (1) paying in cash before or at settlement; (2) adding such fees into the total loan amount to be borrowed; and (3) increasing the loan's interest rate.
 
Requires: (1) written and oral explanations of a borrower's payment options; and (2) a borrower's signature attesting agreement with originator fees and with the chosen method of payment.
 
Requires the originator to provide the applicant with a written early settlement statement of all settlement costs to be charged at or before settlement.
 
Shields borrowers from liability for any such fees not disclosed on an early settlement statement, except in certain circumstances.
 
Establishes originator liability to a borrower for non-compliance with this Act, including reimbursement of the borrower for court costs.
 
Repeals the requirement that special information booklets prepared by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) for borrowers contain a good faith estimate of the amount or range of expected settlement charges. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S14299-14300)
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S14298-14299)
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Internet Safety Education Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2344
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child safety
Department of Justice
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Internet
Law
Parent and child
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 
Internet Safety Education Act of 2007 - Directs the Attorney General, subject to the availability of funds, to create and administer a competitive grant program for eligible organizations to carry out free, age-appropriate programs that promote Internet safety for children. Directs the Attorney General to define, by rule, the term &quot;eligible organization.&quot;

action_date: 2007-12-13
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Internet Safety Education Act of 2007 - Directs the Attorney General, subject to the availability of funds, to create and administer a competitive grant program for eligible organizations to carry out free, age-appropriate programs that promote Internet safety for children. Directs the Attorney General to define, by rule, the term &quot;eligible organization.&quot; Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 542.
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2007-12-13
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in Senate
PROMISE Act

Bill: 110-s-2346
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Consent decrees
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreclosure
Law
Mortgages
Secondary mortgage market

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 
Promoting Refinancing Opportunities for Mortgages Impacted by the Subprime Emergency Act of 2007, or the PROMISE Act - Requires the Director of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) of the Department of Housing and Urban Development to terminate, suspend, modify, or otherwise lift: (1) the limitation on growth provision set forth in the Fannie Mae Consent Decree (the OFHEO order dated May 23, 2006, in the matter of the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae)); and (2) the voluntary temporary growth limitation described in the Freddie Mac Letter (dated July 31, 2006, from the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac) to the OFHEO Director).
 
Requires: (1) the Director to increase the mortgage portfolio limitations of both enterprises by at least 10%; and (2) the use of 85% of such increase for refinancing subprime mortgages at risk of foreclosure.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 485.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Prevention Through Affordable Access Act

Bill: 110-s-2347
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Clinics
Commerce
Drug industry
Drugs
Education
Family planning and birth control
Higher education
Medicaid
Prescription pricing
Rebates
Social Welfare
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 
Prevention Through Affordable Access Act - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to revise requirements for the best price component of the formula for determination of the Medicaid rebate for a covered single source outpatient drug or a covered innovator multiple source outpatient drug. (Under current law, best prices shall not take into account prices that are merely nominal in amount.)
 
Revises the list of entities to which sales by a manufacturer of covered outpatient drugs at nominal prices shall be considered to be sales at a nominal price, or merely nominal in amount (and thus excluded from computation of the best price for such drugs).
 
Adds to such list any entity that is: (1) operated by a health center of an institution of higher education, primarily for its students (university-based clinic); or (2) a public or private nonprofit entity that provides family planning services under the Public Health Service Act (safety-net clinic).
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Emergency Border Security Funding Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2348
Sponsor: Sen. Cornyn, John [R-TX]
Introduced: 2007-11-13 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Appropriations
Border patrols
Boundaries
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal aliens
Department of Homeland Security
Deportation
Detention of persons
Economics and Public Finance
Federal law enforcement officers
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Mexico
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: 
Emergency Border Security Funding Act of 2007 - Directs the President, within two years, to ensure that: (1) operational control of the U.S.-Mexico border will be met; (2) the Border Patrol will have 23,000 full-time agents; (3) specified barriers will be installed along such border; and (4) specified detention capacities will be met.
 
Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 486.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Introduced in Senate
Overseas Private Investment Corporation Reauthorization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2349
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2007-11-14 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Air pollution control
American investments
Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Commerce
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Cooperative societies
Corporate accountability
Employee rights
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental technology
Executive reorganization
Finance and Financial Sector
Fluorocarbons
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Gas industry
Government Operations and Politics
Government ethics
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Human rights
Investment guaranty insurance
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Low-income housing
Methane
Middle East and North Africa
Mines and mineral resources
Natural gas
Nitrogen oxides
Overseas Private Investment Corporation
Petroleum industry
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reinsurance
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: 
Overseas Private Investment Corporation Reauthorization Act of 2007 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to reauthorize the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) through September 30, 2011.
 
Revises international worker rights provisions.
 
Requires OPIC to institute a climate change mitigation action plan.
 
Requires, with a specified exception, prior to OPIC approval of a Category A extractive industry project (as defined by this Act) or an extractive industry project in which OPIC assistance would be valued at $10 million or more; (1) prior congressional notification; and (2) investor and host country agreement to implement Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative principles or substantially similar principles, and host country adherence to certain accounting procedures as they relate to such projects. 
 
Provides for increased project transparency.
 
Authorizes OPIC programs in Iraq.
 
Requires OPIC to report to Congress on: (1) the feasibility of expanding OPIC assistance to low-income home buyers; and (2) OPIC resources dedicated to assist U.S. small businesses, cooperatives, and small U.S. investors.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Glaucoma Screening Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2350
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-11-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Clinics
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Eye diseases
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Health education
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Medical education
Medical residents
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medicare
Minorities
Minority health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: 
Glaucoma Screening Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to expand coverage of screening for glaucoma to include individuals who are both older than 49 years of age and Hispanic.

Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a program to award a grant to an eligible entity to provide glaucoma screenings to individuals determined to be at high risk. Requires such an entity to: (1) utilize mobile screening units to test for glaucoma and other eye diseases; (2) target screening activities to populations primarily consisting of high-risk individuals; (3) form partnerships with federally-qualified health centers to increase awareness of the need for glaucoma screenings and to provide screenings for high-risk individuals; and (4) provide grants to approved medical residency training programs to permit participating students to conduct such screenings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a tax credit for medical research related to developing qualified infectious disease products.

Bill: 110-s-2351
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-11-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Antibiotics
Commerce
Communicable diseases
Drug industry
Health
Income tax
Medical tests
Pharmaceutical research
Preventive medicine
Research and development tax credit
Science, Technology, Communications
Vaccines
Virus diseases

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a general business tax credit for 50% of expenses paid for research and development of any qualified infectious disease product. Defines &quot;qualified infectious disease product&quot; as any antibiotic drug, antiviral, diagnostic test, biological product, or vaccine developed to treat, detect, prevent, or identify certain pathogens. Terminates such credit after 2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Hearing Health Care Enhancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2352
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2007-11-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Hearing
Hearing disorders
Medicare
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: 
Medicare Hearing Health Care Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for direct access to qualified audiologists for Medicare beneficiaries, without regard to any requirement that the beneficiary be under the care of (or referred by) a physician or other health care practitioner, or that such services are provided under the supervision of a physician or other health care practitioner.
 
Covers audiology services under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S14401)
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Fair Judicial Compensation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2353
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-11-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Appellate courts
Bankruptcy
Courts of special jurisdiction
District courts
Fees
Judicial compensation
Supreme Court justices
Trusts and trustees

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: 
Fair Judicial Compensation Act of 2007 - Increases by 16.5% the annual salaries of the Chief Justice of the United States, associate justices of the Supreme Court, U.S. circuit judges, U.S. district judges, and judges of the United States Court of International Trade.

Amends the federal bankruptcy code to increase fees for bankruptcy trustees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S14401)
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey 4 parcels of land from the Bureau of Land Management to the city of Twin Falls, Idaho.

Bill: 110-s-2354
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2007-11-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Environmental Protection
Habitat conservation
Idaho
Land transfers
Water quality

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to convey four specified parcels of land in Twin Falls, Idaho, to the city of Twin Falls for use to support public purposes, including a limited agricultural exemption to allow for water quality and wildlife habitat improvements. 

action_date: 2008-09-16
text: 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to convey four specified parcels of land in Twin Falls, Idaho, to the city of Twin Falls for use to support public purposes of the Auger Falls Project, including a limited agricultural exemption to allow for water quality and wildlife habitat improvements. 

Prohibits the use of the conveyed land for residential or commercial purposes, except for the limited agricultural exemption described above.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to require additional terms and conditions as considered appropriate to protect U.S. interests. 
 
Requires, if, the conveyed land is no longer used in accordance with this Act: (1) such land shall revert to the United States, at the discretion of the Secretary; and (2) if the Secretary chooses to have such land revert, and if it is environmentally contaminated, the city or any other person responsible for the contamination to remediate such contamination. 
 
Requires the city to pay all survey and other administrative costs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 981.
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with amendments. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with amendments. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-09-11
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-603.
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Prevention of Unsafe Licensing Act

Bill: 110-s-2356
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2007-11-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Citizenship
Driver licenses
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
Illegal aliens
Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: 
Prevention of Unsafe Licensing Act - Amends the REAL ID Act of 2005 to prohibit a state from issuing a driver's license or identification document to a person unless the state has complied with certain citizenship or lawful immigration status verification requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Perquimans River Wild and Scenic River Study Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2357
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2007-11-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
North Carolina
Water Resources Development
Wild rivers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: 
Perquimans River Wild and Scenic River Study Act of 2007 - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate the Perquimans River and its tributaries in Perquimans County, North Carolina, for study for potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2358
Sponsor: Sen. Brownback, Sam [R-KS]
Introduced: 2007-11-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Animals
Cloning
Fines (Penalties)
Health
Human embryology
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: 
Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to prohibit and to set penalties for: (1) creating or attempting to create a human-animal hybrid (a being with human and non-human tissue as specified in this Act); (2) transferring or attempting to transfer a human embryo into a non-human womb, or a non-human embryo into a human womb; or (3) transporting or receiving for any purpose a human-animal hybrid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S14490-14491)
action_date: 2007-11-15
text: Introduced in Senate