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Choking Hazard Awareness Act

Bill: 110-hr-1893
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Advertising
Child safety
Consumer protection
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Product safety
Standards
Toys

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Choking Hazard Awareness Act - Amends the Federal Hazardous Substances Act to require: (1) any advertisement for any toy, game, balloon, small ball, or marble that requires a cautionary &quot;choking hazard&quot; statement to display such statement in its entirety on or immediately adjacent to such advertisement; and (2) the statement to be displayed in the language that is primarily used in the advertisement, catalogue, or website and in conspicuous and legible type.

Treats such requirements as consumer product safety standards, and the publication or distribution of any advertisement that is not in compliance with such requirements as a prohibited act, under the Consumer Product Safety Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Child Care Construction and Renovation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1894
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Block grants
Building construction
Building laws
Commerce
Community development
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Construction industries
Construction workers
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Federal aid to housing
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Fire prevention
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Housing and Community Development
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Liability insurance
Minimum wages
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Nonprofit organizations
Revolving funds
Secondary mortgage market
Social Welfare
Subcontractors
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Urban affairs
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Child Care Construction and Renovation Act of 2007 - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize the use of community development block grants to construct and renovate child care facilities.

Amends the National Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to insure mortgages for: (1) new or rehabilitated child care and development facilities, including for fire safety equipment loans; and (2) acquiring or refinancing debt of existing child care facilities.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to study the availability of secondary markets for mortgages on child care facilities.

Authorizes HUD grants to eligible nonprofit organizations for technical and financial assistance to assist eligible child care providers in acquiring or improving facilities or equipment.

Applies the provisions of the Davis-Bacon Act to actions taken under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Anti-Gun Trafficking Penalties Enhancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1895
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Firearms
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification of criminals
Larceny
Organized crime
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Anti-Gun Trafficking Penalties Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends the Science, State, Justice, Commerce, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2006 to repeal restrictions on disclosure of the content of the Firearms Trace System database (database). Directs the Attorney General to provide state and local governments or law enforcement agencies with information from such database upon receipt of a written request.

Requires federal law enforcement agencies investigating a crime to provide information about firearms stolen or used in such crime to the Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, Tobacco, and Explosives (BAFTE) for inclusion in the database. 

Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to require state and local law enforcement agencies investigating a crime to provide information about firearms stolen or used in such crime to BAFTE for inclusion in the database. 

Amends the federal criminal code to include illegal firearms sales and trafficking in the definition of racketeering activity.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Achieving Our IDEA Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1896
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Appropriations
Authorization
Department of Education
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Achieving Our IDEA Act of 2007 - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to authorize and make appropriations for: (1) each of FY2008-FY2012 in specified amounts; and (2) each subsequent fiscal year, in amounts necessary to fully fund 40% of the average per pupil expenditure for IDEA part B programs of assistance for education of all children with disabilities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
National Park Second Amendment Restoration and Personal Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1897
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Constitutional amendments
Crime and Law Enforcement
Firearms
Firearms control
Government Operations and Politics
Law
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
National Park Second Amendment Restoration and Personal Protection Act of 2007 - Prohibits any federal regulation from restricting any individual from possessing or carrying a firearm if that restriction is based upon the fact that the individual is in a unit of the National Park System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Child Health Care Affordability Act

Bill: 110-hr-1898
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cancer
Child health
Disabled
Families
Health
Hospital care
Households
Income tax
Long-term care
Medical economics
Parents
Siblings
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax refunds
Terminally ill

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Child Health Care Affordability Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for the medical expenses of a dependent. Limits the amount of such credit to $500 (adjusted for inflation) per dependent. Increases the amount of the credit to $3,000 (adjusted for inflation) for a dependent who has a terminal disease, cancer, a disability, or any other health condition requiring hospitalization or other forms of specialized care. (Coordinates the credit allowed by this Act with the income tax credit for household and dependent care expenses and the income tax deduction for medical expenses to prevent a double tax benefit.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E762)
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Enhanced Options for Rural Health Care Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1899
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congregate housing
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Medicare
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Enhanced Options for Rural Health Care Act of 2007 - Amends part A (Hospital Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide that nothing in such title shall be construed as preventing a critical access hospital from using any of its designated number of beds to provide assisted living or from accepting private payments for related services.
 
Declares that such use shall not increase the total number of beds that the facility may have and maintain its designation as such a hospital.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E760)
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend eligibility for pension benefits under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to veterans who received an expeditionary medal during a period of military service other than a period of war.

Bill: 110-hr-1900
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Commemorations
Labor and Employment
Military medals, decorations, etc.
Military operations
Veterans' pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Redefines the term &quot;period of war&quot; for purposes of eligibility for veterans' pension benefits to include any period of active military, naval, or air service not specifically referenced for which a veteran received an expeditionary medal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E806-807)
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to extend eligibility for pension benefits under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to veterans who served during certain periods of time in specified locations.

Bill: 110-hr-1901
Sponsor: Rep. Rahall, Nick J., II [D-WV-3]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces abroad
Caribbean area
East Asia
Grenada
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Lebanon
Middle East and North Africa
Military operations
Panama
South Korea
Veterans' pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Amends the definition of &quot;period of war&quot; to extend eligibility for veterans' pension benefits to those veterans who served during specified time periods in the Republic of Korea, Lebanon, Granada, or Panama.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E806-807)
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Post-Prostate Cancer Treatment Equity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1903
Sponsor: Rep. Towns, Edolphus [D-NY-10]
Introduced: 2007-04-17 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Consumer education
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Labor and Employment
Prostate cancer
Prosthesis
Surgery
Urology

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: 
Post-Prostate Cancer Treatment Equity Act of 2007 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) and the Public Health Service Act to require a group health plan that provides medical and surgical benefits with respect to prostate cancer treatment to provide coverage for: (1) all stages of reconstructive prosthetic urology surgery; and (2) prostheses and physical complications of prostatectomy. Requires plans to provide notice of the coverage.

Prohibits a group health plan from: (1) denying to a patient eligibility or continued eligibility solely to avoid the requirements of this Act; or (2) penalizing or otherwise reducing or limiting the reimbursement of a provider or providing incentives to induce such provider to provide care to a participant or beneficiary in a manner inconsistent with this Act.

Applies such requirements to coverage offered in the individual market.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-17
text: Introduced in House
Federal Criminal Immigration Courts Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1909
Sponsor: Rep. Cuellar, Henry [D-TX-28]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Advice and consent of the Senate
Arizona
Congress
District courts
Government Operations and Politics
Judges
New Mexico
Presidential appointments
Texas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Federal Criminal Immigration Courts Act of 2007 - Directs the President to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, the following permanent judgeships: (1) four additional district judges for the district of Arizona; (2) one additional district judge for the district of New Mexico; (3) two additional district judges for the southern district of Texas; and (4) one additional district judge for the western district of Texas. 
 
Directs the President to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, the following temporary judgeships: (1) one additional district judge for the district of Arizona; and (2) one additional district judge for the district of New Mexico. 
 
Provides that, for each of the judicial districts named in this Act, the first vacancy arising on the district court 10 years or more after a judge is first confirmed to fill the temporary district judgeship created by this Act shall not be filled.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7303-7304)
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
Tax Relief for Working Caregivers Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1911
Sponsor: Rep. Donnelly, Joe [D-IN-2]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Caregivers
Costs
Day care
Disabled
Families
Grandparents
Income tax
Married people
Mentally disabled
Parents
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Tax Relief for Working Caregivers Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase from $15,000 to $75,000 the taxpayer adjusted gross income amount at which the tax credit for household and dependent care expenses is phased down; and (2) allow such credit for a physically or mentally incapacitated parent (or an ancestor of such parent) of the taxpayer who is a dependent of such taxpayer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3564-3565)
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Hearing Enhancement and Auditory Rehabilitation (HEAR) Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1912
Sponsor: Rep. Bilirakis, Gus M. [R-FL-9]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Hearing
Hearing aids
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Medicare Hearing Enhancement and Auditory Rehabilitation (HEAR) Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover hearing aids and auditory rehabilitation services under the Medicare program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H4056)
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
Great Cats Conservation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1913
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Henry E., Jr. [R-SC-1]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Cats
Crime and Law Enforcement
Ecological research
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental law enforcement
Environmental monitoring
Federal advisory bodies
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Habitat conservation
International Affairs
International environmental cooperation
Lions
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Restoration ecology
Science, Technology, Communications
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Great Cats Conservation Act of 2007 - Defines &quot;great cat&quot; to mean any lion, leopard, jaguar, snow leopard, clouded leopard, cheetah, or Spanish lynx.

Establishes the Great Cats Conservation Fund as a separate account in the Multinational Species Conservation Fund. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to use amounts in such Fund to provide assistance for projects for the conservation of great cats. Authorizes the Secretary to convene an advisory group of individuals representing public and private organizations actively involved in the conservation of great cats. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-06
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E777)
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
Terrorist Death Penalty Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1914
Sponsor: Rep. Carter, John R. [R-TX-31]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Capital punishment
Criminal investigation
Criminal procedure
Evidence (Law)
Juries
Law
Obstruction of justice
Prosecution
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Terrorist Death Penalty Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to: (1) impose the death penalty for certain terrorist offenses; (2) include as death penalty aggravating factors whether the defendant committed an offense after substantial planning or engaged in conduct resulting in the death of another person in order to obstruct the investigation or prosecution of any offense; (3) permit the impaneling of a new jury when a unanimous death penalty recommendation cannot be reached; and (4) expand the power of a court to impanel a jury of less than 12 members in a death penalty proceeding. 

Amends the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure to increase the number of allowable alternate jurors from six to nine and permit four additional peremptory challenges when seven, eight, or nine alternative jurors are impaneled.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand, and extend for 10 years, the American Samoa economic development credit.

Bill: 110-hr-1916
Sponsor: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: American Samoa
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Income tax
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow, between January 1, 2008, and December 31, 2017, a tax credit to certain domestic corporations engaged in business activities and asset sales within American Samoa.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House