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South Park National Heritage Area Act

Bill: 110-s-444
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agriculture and Food
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Colorado
Commemorations
Commerce
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Housing and Community Development
Land use
Landscape protection
Maps
Nature conservation
Outdoor recreation
Planning
Public meetings
Public-private partnerships
Regional economic development
Right of property
Signs and signboards
Sports and Recreation
Tourism
Water Resources Development
Water rights
West (U.S.)

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
South Park National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the South Park National Heritage Area in South Park, Colorado.
 
Requires the Park County Tourism & Community Development Office to submit a management plan for the Area. 

action_date: 2007-09-17
text: 
South Park National Heritage Area Act - Establishes the South Park National Heritage Area in South Park, Colorado. 

Requires the Park County Tourism & Community Development Office to submit a management plan for the Area. 

Authorizes appropriations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 369.
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. 110-171.
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. 110-171.
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
Trade Prosecutor Act

Bill: 110-s-445
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
China
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Diplomats
Dispute settlement
East Asia
Economic growth
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Foreign exchange
Free trade
Government Operations and Politics
Government procurement
Governmental investigations
Import relief
Intellectual property
International Affairs
Nontariff trade barriers
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
Presidential appointments
Small business
Trade agreements
Trade negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Trade Prosecutor Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to establish in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) a Trade Enforcement Division, headed by a Trade Enforcement Officer, to ensure that U.S. trading partners comply with trade agreements to which the United States is a party. Establishes within the Division the Office of Trade Assistance for Small Businesses.
 
Requires the USTR, after submission of a specified report, to annually identify (and report to Congress on): (1) U.S. trade enforcement priorities; (2) enforcement actions and their impact on foreign trade barriers; and (3) priority foreign country trade practices on which the USTR will focus enforcement efforts. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Nurse Education, Expansion, and Development Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-446
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Building construction
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Curricula
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational facilities
Educational planning
Educational statistics
Educational technology
Educational tests
Federal aid to education
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Graduate education
Higher education
Information technology
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Maintenance and repair
Medical education
Medical residents
Minorities
Minority education
Nurses
Nursing education
Recruiting of employees
Salaries
School buildings
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Student enrollment
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Nurse Education, Expansion, and Development Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to award a grant to each eligible school of nursing to increase the number of nursing faculty and students.
 
Requires such schools to formulate and implement a plan to accomplish at least two of specified goals, which include: (1) establishing or significantly expanding an accelerated baccalaureate degree nursing program designed to graduate new nurses in 12 to 18 months; (2) establishing cooperative interdisciplinary training between schools of nursing and other specified health related fields; (3) increasing admissions, enrollment, and retention of qualified individuals who are financially disadvantaged; (4) increasing enrollment of minority and diverse student populations; (5) increasing enrollment of new graduate baccalaureate nursing students in graduate programs that educate nurse faculty members; (6) developing post-baccalaureate residency programs to prepare nurses for practice in specialty areas where nursing shortages are more severe; and (7) increasing integration of geriatric content into the core curriculum.
 
Requires the Comptroller General to study ways to increase participation in the nurse faculty profession and to submit a report to Congress that includes: (1) a discussion of the master's degree and doctoral degree programs that are successful in placing graduates as faculty in schools of nursing; and (2) an examination of compensation disparities throughout the nursing profession and between higher education instructional faculty generally and higher education instructional nursing faculty.


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 S1415-1416)
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-447
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Air piracy
Aircraft
Airports
Aliens
Americans in foreign countries
Ammunition
Appellate procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Assassination
Automobile theft
Biological warfare
Capital punishment
Chemical warfare
Child pornography
Child sexual abuse
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Conspiracy
Correctional personnel
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Criminal investigation
Destruction of property
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Election candidates
Emergency Management
Espionage
Explosives
Families
Federal law enforcement officers
Federal officials
Firearms
Genocide
Government Operations and Politics
Hostages
Illegal aliens
Immigration
Informers
Insubordination
International Affairs
Jurisdiction
Kidnapping
Larceny
Law
Law enforcement officers
Life imprisonment
Limitation of actions
Mandatory sentences
Marine safety
Members of Congress
Motor vehicles
Murder
Nuclear terrorism
Officer personnel
Offshore structures
Organized crime
Parole
Police
Postal service
Presidential protection
Prison violence
Prisoners
Protection of officials
Racial discrimination
Railroads
Rape
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sex crimes
Smuggling
State employees
Supreme Court justices
Terrorism
Torture
Transportation and Public Works
Treason
Vice Presidents
Victims of crimes
Violence
War crimes
Weapons of mass destruction
Witnesses
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2007 - Repeals death penalty provisions for a wide range of homicide-related offenses under the Immigration and Nationality Act, the federal criminal code, the Controlled Substances Act, and other statutes relating to aircraft hijacking, espionage and treason, and offenses punished under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

Prohibits the sentencing to death or execution of any person for any violation of federal law after the enactment of this Act. Commutes death penalties imposed prior to the enactment of this Act to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5174-5175)
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1418-1421)
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1417-1418)
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Iraq Redeployment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-448
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Defense budgets
Diplomacy
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Military operations
Military strategy
Military withdrawal
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Iraq Redeployment Act of 2007 - Prohibits the use of any federal funds to continue the deployment in Iraq of members of the U.S. Armed Forces after 180 days after the enactment of this Act, notwithstanding the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002. Provides exceptions with respect to the use of funds to: (1) conduct targeted counterterrorism operations; (2) provide security for U.S. infrastructure and civilian personnel; (3) conduct Iraqi security services training; (4) protect U.S. Armed Forces carrying out any of the above functions; or (5) carry out any political, economic, or general reconstruction activities in Iraq.
 
Requires a report, from the Secretaries of Defense and State to Congress, on a strategy for the redeployment of members of the Armed Forces from Iraq after such deadline.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate
State and Local Law Enforcement Discipline, Accountability, and Due Process Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-449
Sponsor: Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Criminal investigation
Disciplining of employees
Dismissal of employees
Due process of law
Election candidates
Employee rights
Evidence (Law)
Federal preemption
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Government employee unions
Government employees' political activities
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grievance procedures
Injunctions
Judicial opinions
Labor and Employment
Law
Law enforcement officers
Leave of absence
Local employees
Local laws
Personnel records
Police
Police brutality
Police corruption
Police questioning
Police-community relations
Polygraphs
Right of privacy
Right to counsel
Self-incrimination
Sound recording and reproducing
State employees
State laws
Subpoena
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: State and Local Law Enforcement Discipline, Accountability, and Due Process Act of 2007 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to set forth the due process rights, including procedures, that shall be afforded a law enforcement officer (officer) who is the subject of an investigation or disciplinary hearing. 
Declares that an officer shall not be: (1) prohibited from engaging in political activity or be denied the right to refrain from engaging in such activity, except when on duty or acting in an official capacity; and (2) prohibited from being a candidate for an elective office or from serving in such elective office solely because of the officer's status as an officer, with exceptions.
Requires that: (1) each law enforcement agency adopt and thereafter comply with a written complaint procedure that meets specified requirements; and (2) an investigation based on a complaint from outside the agency commence not later than 15 days after receipt of the complaint by the agency employing the officer against whom the complaint has been made, or any other agency charged with investigating such complaint.
Directs that any officer who is the subject of an investigation be notified of the investigation 24 hours before the commencement of questioning. Establishes rights of officers before and during questioning, including the right to counsel. Requires questioning to be conducted at reasonable hours. Prohibits an officer from being compelled to submit to the use of a lie detector.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1422-1425)
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1421-1422)
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-450
Sponsor: Sen. Ensign, John [R-NV]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Medical fees
Medicare
Occupational therapy
Physical therapy
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Medicare Access to Rehabilitation Services Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the outpatient therapy cap.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate
National Foreign Language Coordination Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-451
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Academic performance
Administrative procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Business education
Career education
Commerce
Conferences
Congressional reporting requirements
Education
Educational accountability
Educational research
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Engineering
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Federal employees
Federal-state relations
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government publications
Government publicity
Health
Higher education
International competitiveness
International education
Internet
Journalism
Labor and Employment
Language and languages
Law
Legal education
Legislation
Medical education
Presidential appointments
Public-private partnerships
Recruiting of employees
Science, Technology, Communications
Scientific education
Standards
Surveys
Teacher education
Translating and interpreting
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
National Foreign Language Coordination Act of 2007 - Establishes, in the Executive Office of the President, a National Foreign Language Coordination Council to: (1) oversee and implement the National Security Language Initiative (NSLI); and (2) develop and implement a national foreign language strategy. Includes heads of certain federal agencies as members of the Council. 
 
Establishes a National Language Director, to be appointed by the President, to: (1) chair the Council; (2) develop and monitor implementation of the strategy, built upon the efforts of the NSLI; (3) establish formal relationships among major stakeholders, including federal, state, and local government agencies, academia, industry, labor, and heritage communities; and (4) coordinate and lead a public information campaign.
 
Requires the Council to consult with states to provide for designation of state contact persons. Encourages formation of state interagency councils, or designation of state lead agencies, to coordinate with the Council and state and local agencies.


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 S1426-1427)
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1425-1426)
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Improving Access to Higher Education Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-454
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congress
Economics and Public Finance
Education savings accounts
Employee benefit plans
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Income tax
Interest
Labor and Employment
Scholarships
Student loan funds
Sunset legislation
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Improving Access to Higher Education Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to increase the maximum Pell Grant award to $5,100 for the 2007-2008 academic year. Raises the minimum Pell Grant award from $400 to $500.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to raise: (1) the maximum student loan interest deduction to $3,750; and (2) the modified adjusted gross income level where such deduction begins to be phased-out.
 
Exempts from the sunset provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA): (1) the elimination of the 60-month limit on the period of such deduction; and (2) the increase in the income limitation on such deduction.
 
Increases the maximum annual contribution limit for Coverdell education savings accounts from $2,000 to $3,000, and makes such increase permanent.
 
Repeals the EGTRRA sunset on the tax exclusion of employer-provided educational assistance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1430-1431)
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Active Duty Military Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-455
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
College costs
Commerce
Earned income tax credit
Education
Education savings accounts
Health
Higher education
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Medical savings accounts
Military pay
Military personnel
Replacement workers
Self-employed
Small business
Social Welfare
Survivors' benefits
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties
Temporary employment
Wages
Withholding tax

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Active Duty Military Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow certain small business owners (with 100 or fewer employees) and self-employed individuals a tax credit for wages paid to members of the Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces and to temporary replacement employees for such members while on active military duty; (2) treat differential wage payments made to members of the Ready Reserve as earned income for tax withholding and retirement plan purposes; (3) allow the rollover of military death gratuities to individual retirement accounts, health savings accounts, Archer medical savings accounts, and education savings accounts; (4) increase the standard tax deduction by $1,000 in 2007 and 2008 for members of the uniformed services on active duty for more than 30 days; and (5) make permanent the taxpayer election to treat combat pay as earned income for purposes of computing the earned income tax credit.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1431-1434)
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1431)
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the date on which the National Security Personnel System will first apply to certain defense laboratories.

Bill: 110-s-457
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Federal employees
Laboratories
Military research
Personnel management
Research and development facilities
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Delays until October 1, 2011, the application of the National Security Personnel System to certain defense research laboratories.

action_date: 2007-06-11
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Delays until October 1, 2011, the application of the National Security Personnel System to certain defense research laboratories.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 196.
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman without amendment. With written report No. 110-79.
action_date: 2007-06-11
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman without amendment. With written report No. 110-79.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate
Physician Pathology Services Continuity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-458
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2007-01-31 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Hospital care
Medical fees
Medical laboratories
Medical tests
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: 
Physician Pathology Services Continuity Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, with regard to a laboratory-furnished technical component of certain physician pathology services, to treat such component as a service for which payment shall be made to the laboratory, and not as an inpatient hospital or hospital outpatient service for which payment is made to the hospital.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-01-31
text: Introduced in Senate