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Commercial Fishermen Safety Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-687
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Equipment and supplies
Fishing boats
Health
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine safety
Occupational health and safety
Tax credits
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: 
Commercial Fishermen Safety Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow commercial fishermen a business tax credit for up to 75 percent of the cost of certain fishing safety equipment. Limits the annual amount of such credit to $1,500.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2275-2276)
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2275)
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Griselda Lopez Negrete.

Bill: 110-s-688
Sponsor: Sen. Graham, Lindsey [R-SC]
Introduced: 2007-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Provides for the relief of Griselda Lopez Negrete.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Good Samaritan Hunger Relief Tax Incentive Extension Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-689
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2007-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Charitable contributions
Commerce
Finance and Financial Sector
Food industry
Food relief
Income tax
Inventories
Tax deductions
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: 
Good Samaritan Hunger Relief Tax Incentive Extension Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to modify the tax deduction for charitable contributions of food inventory by allowing a fair market valuation of the contributed food and by making such deduction permanent. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2276)
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Catastrophic Disaster Recovery Improvements Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-690
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2007-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Alabama
Disaster loans
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federally-guaranteed loans
Floods
Florida
Government lending
Hurricanes
Louisiana
Mississippi
Small business
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: 
Catastrophic Disaster Recovery Improvements Act of 2007 - Amends the Small Business Act to authorize the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), in providing SBA disaster relief assistance, to waive the prohibition on the duplication of benefits, including whether damage or destruction has been compensated for, credit is available from, or funds have been made available from any other source.
 
Applies such amendment to any SBA assistance provided on or after August 29, 2005 (thereby ensuring applicability and retroactivity for victims of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2277)
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2276-2277)
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Kidney Care Quality and Education Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-691
Sponsor: Sen. Conrad, Kent [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Child health
Chronically ill
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Health education
Health facilities
Health information systems
Health surveys
Home care services
Hospital rates
Inspectors general
Kidney diseases
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Medical economics
Medical fees
Medical personnel
Medical research
Medical supplies
Medicare
Physicians
Preventive medicine
Quality of care
Quality of life
Science, Technology, Communications
Self-care
Social Welfare
Technical education
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: 
Kidney Care Quality and Education Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish demonstration projects to: (1) increase public awareness about the factors that lead to chronic kidney disease, how to prevent it, how to treat it, and how to avoid kidney failure, as well as enhance surveillance systems and expand research to better assess the prevalence and incidence of kidney disease; and (2) enable individuals with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) to develop self-management skills.
 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to provide for Medicare coverage of kidney disease patient education services.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish blood flow monitoring demonstration projects; and (2) arrange with the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to evaluate the barriers to increasing the number of individuals with ESRD who elect to receive home dialysis services or other treatment modalities under Medicare. 
 
Sets forth required training for patient care dialysis technicians.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish an independent, multidisciplinary, nonpartisan End-Stage Renal Disease Advisory Committee.
 
Establishes the annual update framework for the Medicare ESRD composite rate.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish a three-year continuous quality improvement initiative under which quality payments are provided to renal dialysis facilities, providers of services, and physicians that: (1) provide items and services to individuals with ESRD enrolled under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance); and (2) meet quality benchmarks and demonstrate quality improvements. 
 
Requires the Secretary to make quality incentive payments to facilities and providers whose services to individuals with ESRD have substantially improved or exceeded a certain threshold.
 
Extends Medicare as secondary payer with respect to individuals with ESRD.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2277)
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
VA Hospital Quality Report Card Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-692
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Case mix (Medical care)
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health
Hospital care
Hospital personnel
Medical records
Nosocomial infections
Nurses
Patients' rights
Quality of care
Right of privacy
Veterans' medical care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: 
VA Hospital Quality Report Card Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish and implement a Hospital Quality Report Card Initiative to report on health care quality in Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals. Requires the Secretary, at least semiannually, to publish reports on VA hospital quality, including assessments of effectiveness, safety, timeliness, and efficiency.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Automated Defibrillation in Adam's Memory Reauthorization Act

Bill: 110-s-693
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Authorization
Cardiovascular diseases
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Federal aid to health facilities
Medical supplies

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: 
Automated Defibrillation in Adam's Memory Reauthorization Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize appropriations for grants for states, political subdivisions, Indian tribes, and tribal organizations to develop and implement public access defibrillation programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2278)
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2277-2278)
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
American-Owned Property in Occupied Cyprus Claims Act

Bill: 110-s-695
Sponsor: Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative remedies
Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Compensation (Law)
Crime and Law Enforcement
Cyprus
Department of Justice
District courts
District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
Europe
Evidence (Law)
Expropriation
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability (International law)
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
International claims
Jurisdiction
Law
Legal fees
Limitation of actions
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Negotiations
New York State
Rent
Right of property
Turkey

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: 
American-Owned Property in Occupied Cyprus Claims Act - Amends the International Claims Settlement Act of 1949 to urge the President to authorize the Secretary of State to begin negotiations with Turkey to allow for certain claims by U.S. nationals respecting real property in the Turkish-held portions of Cyprus.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to establish in the Treasury a Claims Fund for the payment of unsatisfied claims of U.S. nationals against Turkey. Sets forth payment procedures.
 
Grants U.S. district court jurisdiction for civil actions against any private person (any natural person or legal entity other than Turkey) by a U.S. national who owns property in the Turkish-held portion of Cyprus.
 
Sets forth the conditions under which an action may be brought against the government of Turkey in U.S. or state courts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2279)
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Energy Research Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-696
Sponsor: Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT]
Introduced: 2007-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Awards, medals, prizes
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Energy conservation
Energy consumption
Energy efficiency
Energy research
Energy security
Engineering
Environmental Protection
Executive reorganization
Federal aid to research
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Imports
International competitiveness
Laboratories
Presidential appointments
Research and development
Research and development facilities
Research grants
Science, Technology, Communications
Small business
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: 
Energy Research Act of 2007 - Establishes the Advanced Research Projects Administration - Energy (ARPA-E) to reduce foreign energy imports and to improve the competitiveness of the U.S. economy by: (1) promoting revolutionary changes in the critical technologies that would promote energy competitiveness; (2) turning cutting-edge science and engineering into technologies for energy and environmental application; and (3) accelerating innovation in energy and the environment for both traditional and alternative energy sources and in energy efficiency mechanisms to reduce energy use.

Requires the ARPA-E Director to award competitive grants, cooperative agreements, or contracts to institutions of higher education, companies, or consortia of such entities (which may include federally funded research and development centers).

Requires the Director to implement such programs in a manner similar to the Small Business Innovation Research Program in order to ensure that small-business concerns are fully able to participate in the programs.

Authorizes the Director to carry out a program to award cash prizes in recognition of outstanding achievements with potential application to the mission of ARPA-E.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2280-2281)
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2279-2280)
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Steel Industry National Historic Site Act

Bill: 110-s-697
Sponsor: Sen. Specter, Arlen [R-PA]
Introduced: 2007-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Bridges
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural property
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Industrial buildings
Iron and steel industry
Land transfers
Landowners
Landscape protection
Maps
National parks
Pennsylvania
Right of property
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Steel Industry National Historic Site Act - Establishes the Steel Industry National Historic Site in Pennsylvania as a unit of the National Park System.
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire by donation specified property for inclusion within such Site.
 Requires the Secretary to prepare and submit to specified congressional committees a general management plan for the Site.

Legislative actions:
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: 2007-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2281-2282)
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans' Survivors Education Enhancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-698
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-02-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Agricultural education
Agriculture and Food
Apprenticeship
Correspondence schools and courses
Disabled
Education
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Military personnel
National Guard
Rehabilitation of the disabled
Special education
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: 
Veterans' Survivors Education Enhancement Act of 2007 - Revises provisions concerning educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill to terminate the 45-month limitation on: (1) the use of such assistance for eligible veterans' survivors and dependents; and (2) the use of such assistance for special restorative training. Makes survivors and dependents eligible for educational assistance until their 30th (currently 26th) birthday.
 
Makes the aggregate amount of educational assistance $80,000. (Currently, there are monthly limits for full-time, three quarter-time, or half-time educational pursuit.) Includes within authorized educational pursuits in such amounts: (1) a program of apprenticeship or other on-job training; and (2) a correspondence course.
 
Makes survivors and dependents eligible for tutorial assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2282-2283)
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2282)
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Social Security Number Fraud and Identity Theft Prevention Act

Bill: 110-s-699
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2007-02-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Alien labor
Aliens
Citizenship
Crime and Law Enforcement
Earnings
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identity theft
Illegal aliens
Labor and Employment
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-28
text: 
Social Security Number Fraud and Identity Theft Prevention Act - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Secretary of Labor, and the Attorney General to require an individual to provide the individual's Social Security account number for inclusion in any: (1) record of the individual maintained by either such Secretary or the Attorney General; or (2) any application, document, or form provided under or required by the immigration laws. (Currently, the Attorney General is authorized to require any alien to provide a Social Security account number for inclusion in any record maintained by the Attorney General or the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services.)
 
Requires the Commissioner of Social Security, if a Social Security account number has been used multiple times, to provide the DHS Secretary with information regarding: (1) the name, date of birth, and address of each individual who used the same Social Security account number; and (2) the name and address of the person reporting the earnings for each such individual.
 
Requires the Commissioner to provide such information to the DHS Secretary, in an electronic form, if more than one person reports earnings for an individual during a single tax year.
 
Directs the Commissioner, at the DHS Secretary's request and expense, to perform and report on a search or manipulation of Social Security Commission records if the Secretary certifies that the purpose is to obtain information likely to assist in identifying individuals (and their employers) who are: (1) using false names or Social Security account numbers; (2) sharing a single valid name and Social Security account number among multiple individuals; (3) using the Social Security account number of a person who is deceased, too young to work, or not authorized to work; or (4) otherwise engaged in a violation of the immigration laws.
 
Declares inadmissible to receive visas and to be admitted to the United States any alien who falsely represents himself or herself to be a U.S. national for any purpose or benefit under immigration and nationality or any other federal or state law.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2357)
action_date: 2007-02-28
text: Introduced in Senate
Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-700
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2007-02-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Conservation easements
Economics and Public Finance
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Grants-in-aid
Habitat conservation
Income tax
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-28
text: 
Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2007- Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow certain landowners whose property contains the habitat of an endangered or threatened species and who enter into a habitat protection agreement a tax credit for costs relating to habitat protection easements and restoration. Places limits on the amount of such credit for calendar years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012. Directs the Comptroller General of the United States to study and report to Congress on the effectiveness of such credit.

Allows a tax deduction for expenditures related to recovery plans approved by the Endangered Species Act of 1973. 

Excludes from gross income certain payments under: (1) the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program authorized by the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Act; and (2) the Landowner Incentive Program, the State Wildlife Grants Program, and the Private Stewardship Grants Program authorized by the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-02-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2357-2358)
action_date: 2007-02-28
text: Introduced in Senate
State Court Interpreter Grant Program Act

Bill: 110-s-702
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-02-28 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: District of Columbia
Economics and Public Finance
English language
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Judicial officers
State courts
Translating and interpreting

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-28
text: 
State Court Interpreter Grant Program Act - Directs the Administrator of the Office of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice to: (1) make grants to state courts to develop and implement programs to assist individuals with limited English proficiency to access and understand state court proceedings in which they are a party; and (2) allocate specified funds to establish a court interpreter technical assistance program to assist state courts receiving grants under this Act.

Authorizes the use of grant awards by state courts to: (1) assess regional language demands; (2) develop a court interpreter program; (3) develop, institute, and administer language certification examinations; (4) recruit, train, and certify qualified court interpreters; and (5) pay for salaries, transportation, and technology necessary to implement the court interpreter program. 

action_date: 2008-08-01
text: 
State Court Interpreter Grant Program Act - Directs the Administrator of the Office of Justice Programs of the Department of Justice to: (1) make grants to state courts to develop and implement programs to assist individuals with limited English proficiency to access and understand state court proceedings in which they are a party; and (2) allocate specified funds to establish a court interpreter technical assistance program to assist state courts receiving grants under this Act.
 
Authorizes the use of grant awards by state courts to: (1) assess regional language demands; (2) develop a court interpreter program; (3) develop, institute, and administer language certification examinations; (4) recruit, train, and certify qualified court interpreters; and (5) pay for salaries, transportation, and technology necessary to implement the court interpreter program. 
 

 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-08-01
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 932.
action_date: 2008-08-01
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-436. Minority views filed.
action_date: 2008-08-01
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Reported by Senator Leahy with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-436. Minority views filed.
action_date: 2008-04-24
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2007-02-28
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S2359-2360)
action_date: 2007-02-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2358-2359)
action_date: 2007-02-28
text: Introduced in Senate