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Long-Range Sniper Rifle Safety Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1331
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-05-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Department of Justice
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Licenses

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: 
Long-Range Sniper Rifle Safety Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code and the firearms registration provisions of the Internal Revenue Code to classify the .50 BMG caliber sniper rifle as a destructive device. Modifies the definition of &quot;rifle&quot; to include a weapon intended to be fired from a bipod or other support.

Directs the Attorney General to implement regulations for notice and registration of .50 BMG caliber sniper rifles as destructive devices and require the registration of unregistered rifles within seven years after the enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5731)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5729-5731)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Mental Health in Schools Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1332
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-05-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Community health services
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employee training
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to health facilities
Labor and Employment
Mental health services
School health programs
School personnel
School security
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: 
Mental Health in Schools Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the program to provide grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements to develop ways to assist children in dealing with violence to include assisting local communities and schools in applying a public health approach to mental health services, including providing comprehensive services and supports and incorporating strategies of positive behavioral interventions and supports.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to implement a comprehensive school mental health program that incorporates positive behavioral interventions and supports.
 
Establishes eligibility requirements for the program, including requiring: (1) a partnership between a local educational agency and at least one community program or agency that is involved in mental health; (2) the program to provide for in-service training of all school personnel; and (3) sustainability of the program after funding terminates.
 
Requires the Administrator of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to develop a process for evaluating activities under the grant program to include the development of student and family outcome measures and local educational outcome measures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5732-5733)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5731)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Strengthen the Earned Income Tax Credit Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1333
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-05-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Earned income tax credit
Families
Income tax
Married people
Military pay
Social Welfare
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: 
Strengthen the Earned Income Tax Credit Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) make permanent the reduction in the marriage penalty applicable to the earned income tax credit; (2) increase the rate of such credit for families with three or more children; (3) increase the rate and the phase-out percentage of such credit for individuals without children; and (4) make permanent provisions treating combat pay as earned income for purposes of calculating such credit. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5734)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5733-5734)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend section 2306 of title 38, United States Code, to make permanent authority to furnish government headstones and markers for graves of veterans at private cemeteries, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-1334
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2007-05-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: 
Makes permanent (under current law, expires December 31, 2007) the requirement that the Secretary of Veterans Affairs furnish, upon request, an appropriate government headstone or marker for the graves of certain veterans eligible for burial in national cemeteries, but buried in private cemeteries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5735)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5734-5735)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in Senate
S.I. Hayakawa Official English Language Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1335
Sponsor: Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK]
Introduced: 2007-05-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Allegiance
Bilingualism
Citizenship
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Discrimination
Economics and Public Finance
English language
Entitlements
Federal preemption
Government publications
Immigration
Income tax
Local laws
Loyalty oaths
Minorities
Naturalization
Social Welfare
State laws
Tax returns
Taxation
Translating and interpreting
Voting
Voting rights

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: 
S.I. Hayakawa Official English Language Act of 2007 - Makes English the official language of the U.S. government. Requires the government to: (1) conduct its official activities in English, including preparing publications, income tax forms, and informational materials in English; and (2) preserve and enhance the role of English as the official language of the United States. Provides that no person has a right, entitlement, or claim to have the government act, communicate, perform, or provide services or materials in any other language, unless expressly provided for in an applicable provision of law. 

Provides that this Act may not: (1) apply to the use of a language other than English for religious purposes, for training in foreign languages for international communication, or in school programs designed to encourage students to learn foreign languages; or (2) be considered to prevent the U.S. government from providing interpreters for persons over age 62. 
Repeals provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 regarding bilingual election requirements and regarding congressional findings of voting discrimination against language minorities, prohibition of English-only elections, and other remedial measures. 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require that all public ceremonies in which the oath of allegiance is administered pursuant to such Act be conducted solely in English. 
Specifies that this Act may not be construed to preempt any state law.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5735-5736)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for an assessment of the achievement by the Government of Iraq of benchmarks for political settlement and national reconciliation in Iraq.

Bill: 110-s-1336
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-05-08 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Congressional witnesses
Constitutions
Defense budgets
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Government Operations and Politics
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Kurds
Legislative bodies
Middle East and North Africa
Military command and control
Military occupation
Military operations
Military training
Petroleum industry
Political parties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: 
Expresses the sense of Congress against any congressional action, including the elimination or reduction of funds, that will impair the mission of the U.S. military forces in the field, undermine their safety, or harm their effectiveness. 
 
Directs the Commander, Multi-National Forces-Iraq to report to Congress within 120 days respecting the status of the achievement of specified benchmarks and the Commander's assessment whether or not each such benchmark has been met.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5736-5737)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Children's Mental Health Parity Act

Bill: 110-s-1337
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-05-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Health insurance
Medically uninsured
Mental health services
Poor children
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: 
Children's Mental Health Parity Act - Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to require a state child health plan to ensure that the financial requirements and treatment limitations applicable to mental health or substance abuse benefits are no more restrictive than (have parity with) those applied to substantially all medical and surgical benefits covered by the plan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5738)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5737-5738)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Access to Medicare Imaging Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1338
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2007-05-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Government Operations and Politics
Imaging systems in medicine
Law
Legislation
Medical fees
Medicare
Physicians
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: 
Access to Medicare Imaging Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to establish a two-year moratorium on certain Medicare physician payment reductions for imaging services.
 
 Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress during such moratorium on imaging services furnished under the Medicare program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5741)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5740-5741)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Teacher Excellence for All Children Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1339
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-05-08 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Authorization
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Income tax
Language and languages
Mathematics
Reading
Scholarships
School administration
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Student loan funds
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Taxation
Teacher education
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers
Teaching
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: 
Teacher Excellence for All Children Act of 2007 - Revises and establishes programs relating to recruitment, preparation, distribution, and retention of public elementary and secondary school teachers and principals.
 
Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) to establish: (1) teacher education assistance for college and higher education (TEACH ) grants for undergraduate and graduate students who agree to serve as teachers in high-need schools and fields; and (2) grants to recruit teachers with mathematics, science, or language majors. 
 
Extends the authorization of appropriations for HEA teacher quality enhancement grants for states and partnerships.
 
Revises HEA student loan forgiveness requirements to: (1) increase the amount of loan forgiveness available to mathematics, science, and special education teachers; (2) make reading specialists eligible for such forgiveness; and (3) apply such forgiveness in annual increments rather than in a lump sum at end of their service obligation..
 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to establish grant programs to improve teaching at high-need schools.
 
Requires states to provide assurances of their reasonable progress toward equitable access to teacher quality as a condition of assistance under ESEA.
 
Amends the Education Sciences Reform Act to direct the Statistics Commissioner to publish results of certain schools and staffing surveys.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exclude from gross income up to $15,000 for compensation of teachers and principals in certain high-need schools or teaching certain high-need subjects; and (2) increase to a maximum of $500 and make permanent the above-the-line deduction for certain expenses of elementary and secondary school teachers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5742-5750)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5741-5742)
action_date: 2007-05-08
text: Introduced in Senate
Geriatric Assessment and Chronic Care Coordination Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1340
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2007-05-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Chronically ill
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Finance and Financial Sector
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Medicare
Quality of care
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: 
Geriatric Assessment and Chronic Care Coordination Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) coverage of geriatric assessments and chronic care coordination services for eligible individuals.
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct outreach activities to inform likely eligible individuals of such assessments and services. 
 
Directs the Secretary to contract for a study and report to Congress and the Secretary on: (1) the effectiveness of such coverage in improving the quality of care provided to Medicare beneficiaries with chronic conditions; and (2) the impact of such assessments and services on reducing Medicare expenditures.
 
Directs the Secretary to study and report to Congress on: (1) the effectiveness of pay-for-performance programs to serve Medicare beneficiaries with multiple conditions; (2) the cost-effectiveness of chronic care coordination under Medicare; and (3) whether the quality measures used for making Medicare part B payments improve the quality of care provided to Medicare beneficiaries with multiple chronic illnesses.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Las Cienegas Enhancement and Saguaro National Park Boundary Adjustment Act

Bill: 110-s-1341
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2007-05-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arizona
Boundaries
Environmental Protection
Forest roads
Land transfers
Landfills
National forests
National parks
Natural areas
Right-of-way
Transportation and Public Works
Water Resources Development
Water rights
Wells

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: 
 Las Cienegas Enhancement and Saguaro National Park Boundary Adjustment Act - Requires the Secretary of the Interior, if Las Cienegas Conservation, LLC offers to convey to the Secretary title to the Empirita-Simonson parcel of land and the Bloom parcel of land (the non-federal land), to accept the offer and simultaneously convey to Las Cienegas Conservation, LLC the Sahuarita parcel of land (the federal land). 

Requires the values of the federal and non-federal lands exchanged to be equal, as determined by appraisals. 

Requires Las Cienegas Conservation, LLC, to: (1) pay the costs of carrying out the exchange of such lands; (2) enter into an agreement with Pima County, Arizona, to convey to Pima County a certain well site; and (3) relinquish to Pima County any water rights to such well site held by Las Cienegas Conservation, LLC. 

Requires: (1) the Empirita-Simonson parcel of non-federal land, upon acquisition by the Secretary, to become part of the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area; and (2) the Bloom parcel of non-federal, upon acquisition by the Secretary, to become part of the Saguaro National Park. 

Modifies the boundary of the Las Cienegas National Conservation Area to exclude the 40-acre tract that is leased by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to the town of Elgin, Arizona, for a sanitary landfill. 

Instructs the Secretary to provide to the Secretary of Agriculture a right-of-way through the non-federal land for motorized public road access to the boundary of the Coronado National Forest.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 644.
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. 110-292.
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. 110-292.
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: 2007-09-27
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-266.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5871)
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in Senate
Diabetes Treatment and Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1343
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-05-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Clinical trials
Department of Health and Human Services
Diabetes
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Health surveys
Lifestyle
Medical screening
Preventive medicine
Quality of care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: 
Diabetes Treatment and Prevention Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to establish the Division of Diabetes Translation to eliminate diabetes.

Requires the Director to develop pilot demonstration projects to evaluate various approaches to: (1) screening and identifying persons with pre-diabetes and undiagnosed diabetes; and (2) providing such persons with access to appropriate lifestyle interventions. Requires such projects to be carried out with the goal of translating the Diabetes Prevention Program clinical trial into interventions to reduce the incidence of type-2 diabetes and its related complications in the U.S. population.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director, to engage in partnerships with state and local health departments to carry out: (1) national, state, and local surveillance related to diabetes; and (2) education and information campaigns to increase awareness about the importance of primary prevention, ways to assess personal risk, and how to locate and access diabetes prevention programs.

Requires the Director, acting through the Division, to develop a pilot program to improve treatment for individuals with diabetes and other co-occurring chronic conditions for which treatment may complicate the treatment for diabetes. Requires the Director to give preference to research that: (1) focuses on conditions which have a high prevalence among individuals with diabetes or for which the treatment involved has the potential to impact adherence to diabetes treatment regiments; and (2) builds upon existing work designed to improve the quality of care for patients with diabetes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5871-5872)
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Wenatchee, Washington, as the Elwood "Bud" Link Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.

Bill: 110-s-1344
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2007-05-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Armed Forces and National Security
Clinics
Congressional tributes
Health
Names
Veterans' hospitals
Washington State

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: 
Designates the Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic in Wenatchee, Washington, as the &quot;Elwood 'Bud' Link Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5872)
action_date: 2007-05-09
text: Introduced in Senate