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GEDI Act

Bill: 110-s-907
Sponsor: Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Clinical trials
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Diabetes
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Health surveys
Medical research
Medical screening
Medical statistics
Obesity
Pregnancy
Pregnant women
Preventive medicine
Science, Technology, Communications
Vital statistics
Women
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: 
Gestational Diabetes Act of 2007 or the GEDI Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to convene a Research Advisory Committee. Requires the Director of CDC to develop a multisite research project to expand and enhance surveillance data and public health research on gestational diabetes.
 
Directs the Secretary, acting through the Director of CDC, to award competitive grants to nonprofit organizations or state health agencies for demonstration projects that test specified hypotheses about interventions designed to reduce the incidence of gestational diabetes and obesity among young women and implement relevant activities.
 
Requires the Director of CDC and the Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, to conduct and support basic, clinical, and public health research regarding gestational diabetes and obesity during pregnancy. 
 
Requires the Director of CDC to encourage screening for gestational diabetes within state-based diabetes prevention and control programs to reduce the incidence of gestational diabetes and its related complications.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3215)
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Consortium on the Impact of Technology in Aging Health Services Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-908
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2007-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Aging
Caregivers
Congressional reporting requirements
Disabled
Drugs
Executive reorganization
Families
Federal advisory bodies
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Geriatrics
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Health information systems
Human engineering
Medical economics
Medical records
Medical research
Medical technology
Medical tests
Preventive medicine
Quality control
Quality of care
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Technological innovations
Technology assessment
Technology transfer

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: 
Consortium on the Impact of Technology in Aging Health Services Act of 2007 - Establishes the Consortium on the Impact of Technology in Aging Health Services. Requires the Consortium to conduct a study of all matters relating to the potential use of new technology to assist older adults and their caregivers, including: (1) methods for identifying technology that may be adapted to meet their needs; (2) methods for fostering scientific innovation in aging services technology within the business and academic communities; (3) barriers to innovation in and the adoption of technology and strategies for removing such barriers; (4) developments in such technology in other countries; and (5) methods for ensuring that U.S. businesses have a leadership role in the global market of such technology.
 
Requires the Consortium to develop recommendations concerning: (1) developments in current technologies that may result in increased efficiency and cost savings to the healthcare system; (2) opportunities for research and development to accelerate the development and adoption of aging services technology; (3) methods to ensure that technology infrastructure is in place to deliver services; and (4) establishment of a federal interagency task force to facilitate the development and distribution of such technology and a National Resource Center to stimulate research, oversee demonstration projects, and provide training and assistance to entities that provide such services.
 
Requires the Consortium to report recommendations regarding development of a national policy to address issues concerning technology and assistive health services for seniors, changes to federal laws and programs that would support and encourage the private sector to develop and make widely available consumer-empowered technology solutions, and establishment of a National Resource Center on Aging Services Technologies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to permit States, at their option, to require certain individuals to present satisfactory documentary evidence of proof of citizenship or nationality for purposes of eligibility for Medicaid, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-909
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Citizenship
Families
Immigrant health
Immigration
Medicaid
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to permit states, at their option, to require certain individuals to present satisfactory documentary evidence of citizenship or nationality for Medicaid eligibility.
 
Revises the rules for children born in the United States to mothers eligible for Medicaid. Declares that a Medicaid-eligible individual shall be deemed to have provided satisfactory documentary evidence of citizenship or nationality, and shall not be required to provide further evidence, on any date during or after the period in which the individual is eligible for Medicaid.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3216)
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3215-3216)
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate
Healthy Families Act

Bill: 110-s-910
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-03-15 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Business records
Caregivers
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Collective bargaining
Commerce
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional employees
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Damages
Department of Labor
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Dismissal of employees
Employee rights
Employers' liability
Families
Family leave
Family violence
Federal employees
Fines (Penalties)
Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Grievance procedures
Health
Informers
Injunctions
Labor contracts
Labor productivity
Labor statistics
Law
Leave of absence
Legal fees
Library of Congress
Limitation of actions
Married people
Medical records
Medical tests
Parents
Part-time employment
Personnel records
Preventive medicine
Right of privacy
Sick leave
Signs and signboards
Social Welfare
State employees
Wage restitution
Whistle blowing

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: 
Healthy Families Act - Requires certain employers, who employ 15 or more employees for each working day during 20 or more workweeks a year, to provide a minimum paid sick leave and employment benefits of: (1) seven days annually for those who work at least 30 hours per week; and (2) a prorated annual amount for those who work less than 30 but at least 20 hours a week, or less than 1,500 but at least 1,000 hours per year. 
 
Allows employees to use such leave to meet their own medical needs or to care for the medical needs of certain family members.
 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to exercise certain investigative and enforcement authority with respect to this Act's provisions for employees covered by title I of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 or the Government Employee Rights Act of 1991. Provides that, for employees under their jurisdiction, such authority shall be exercised by the Librarian of Congress, the Comptroller General, the Board of Directors of the congressional Office of Compliance, or the Merit Systems Protection Board.
 
Declares that the requirements under this Act are minimum requirements, and are not to be construed to discourage employers from adopting or retaining more generous leave policies.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3220-3224)
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3220)
action_date: 2007-03-15
text: Introduced in Senate
America's Better Classroom Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-912
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2007-03-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Apprenticeship
Bonds
Building construction
Charitable contributions
Collection of accounts
Commerce
Community and school
Construction costs
Construction industries
Construction workers
Corporate philanthropy
Curricula
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational planning
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee selection
Enterprise zones
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government procurement
Higher education
Income tax
Indian education
Infrastructure
Interest
Labor and Employment
Maintenance and repair
Minorities
Public schools
School buildings
School districts
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Skilled labor
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax returns
Teacher education
Vocational and technical education
Volunteer workers
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: 
America's Better Classroom Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for investment in qualified public school modernization bonds, defined to include: (1) bonds for the construction, rehabilitation, or repair of a public school facility or for the acquisition of land for such facility (qualified school construction bonds); (2) bonds to finance certain academic programs below the postsecondary level in empowerment zones or enterprise communities (qualified zone academy bonds); and (3) bonds for the construction, rehabilitation, or repair of certain Indian tribal schools (qualified tribal school modernization bonds). Establishes a national limitation on the issuance of such bonds and provides for the allocation of bond amounts among the states according to a specified formula. Limits the term of such bonds to 15 years and terminates the authority for issuance of such bonds after September 30, 2008 (December 31, 2013, for qualified tribal school modernization bonds).

Amends the General Education Provisions Act to apply certain labor standards to public school construction projects financed by this Act.

Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require states to establish employment and training programs relating to the construction or reconstruction of public school facilities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3275)
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to clarify that the revocation of an alien's visa or other documentation is not subject to judicial review.

Bill: 110-s-913
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2007-03-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Aliens
Deportation
Judicial review
Law
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: 
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit judicial review of visa or document revocation. (Currently, judicial review is permitted in a deportation proceeding if such revocation is the sole ground for deportation.) 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Economic Development Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-914
Sponsor: Sen. Voinovich, George V. [R-OH]
Introduced: 2007-03-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Intergovernmental tax relations
Interstate commerce
Job creation
Labor and Employment
State taxation
Tax incentives

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: 
Economic Development Act of 2007 - Authorizes any state to provide to any person for economic development purposes tax incentives that otherwise would be the cause or source of discrimination against interstate commerce under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution. Disqualifies any incentive that: (1) is dependent upon the state or country of incorporation, commercial domicile, or residence of an individual; (2) requires the recipient to acquire, lease, license, use, or provide services to property created in the state; (3) is reduced or eliminated as a result of an increase in out-of-state activity by the recipient or other person or as a result of such other person not having a taxable presence in the state; (4) results in loss of a compensating tax system, because the tax on interstate commerce exceeds the tax on intrastate commerce; (5) requires that other taxing jurisdictions offer reciprocal tax benefits; or (6) requires that a tax incentive earned with respect to one tax can only be used to reduce a tax burden for, or provide a tax benefit against, any other tax that is not imposed on apportioned interstate activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pregnant and Parenting Student Services Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-915
Sponsor: Sen. Dole, Elizabeth [R-NC]
Introduced: 2007-03-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Access to health care
Adoption
College administration
College teachers
Colleges
Congressional reporting requirements
Day care
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Families
Fathers
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Health counseling
Health insurance
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Infants
Marriage
Married people
Maternal health services
Mothers
Parent and child
Parents
Performance measurement
Pregnant women
School health programs
School personnel
Student housing
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: 
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pregnant and Parenting Student Services Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a pilot program to provide grants to encourage eligible institutions of higher education to establish and operate pregnant and parenting student services offices for pregnant students, parenting students, prospective parenting students anticipating a birth or adoption, and students who are placing or have placed a child for adoption.
 
Authorizes grantees to to extend office services to pregnant or parenting employees and their spouses. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Minidoka National Historic Site Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-916
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2007-03-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Concentration camps
Economics and Public Finance
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Idaho
Infrastructure
Islands
Japanese Americans
Land transfers
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Monuments and memorials
National monuments
National parks
Reservoirs
Washington State
Water Resources Development
Water districts
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: 
 Minidoka National Historic Site Act of 2007 - Adjusts the boundary of the Minidoka Internment National Monument located in Idaho to include the Nidoto Nai Yoni (&quot;Let it not happen again&quot;) memorial that commemorates the Japanese Americans of Bainbridge Island, Washington, who were the first to be forcibly removed from their homes and relocated to internment camps during World War II. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary, for the purposes of defining the role of the National Park Service (NPS) in administering the Memorial owned by the City of Brainbridge Island to enter into agreements with the City of Bainbridge Island and specified entities. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to operate and maintain a site in Seattle, Washington, for administrative and visitor use purposes associated with the Monument, using the facilities and other services of the Seattle unit of Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park. 
 
Requires the Secretary to coordinate the development of interpretive and educational materials and programs for the Memorial and Monument site in Idaho with the Manzanar National Historic Site in California. 
 
American Falls Reservoir District Number 2 Conveyance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey specified land to the: (1) American Falls Reservoir District No. 2 located in Jerome, Lincoln, and Gooding Counties, Idaho; (2) city of Gooding; and (3) Idaho Department of Fish and Game. 
 
Revokes the Department of Interior's previous orders that withdrew specified land from the Gooding Division of the Minidoka project. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-15
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-104.
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3276)
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to clarify the authority of the Secretary of the Interior with regard to management of elk in Rocky Mountain National Park.

Bill: 110-s-917
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2007-03-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Colorado
Elk
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Hunting
National parks
Social Welfare
Sports and Recreation
Volunteer workers
Wildlife management

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: 
Declares that nothing in section 4 of the Act of March 2, 1929, (relating to prohibited acts of killing, wounding, or capturing wild birds and animals and fish in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado) or any other applicable law prohibits the Secretary of the Interior from using the services of qualified individuals, as volunteers or pursuant to a contract with the Secretary, to assist in carrying out the Elk and Vegetation Management Plan for the Park by using lethal means to reduce the population of elk within the Park. Instructs the Secretary to consult with the Colorado Division of Wildlife regarding potential participation by it in carrying out such Plan. 
 
Prohibits anything in this Act from applying to a taking of wildlife (within the meaning of &quot;take&quot; under the Endangered Species Act of 1973) within Rocky Mountain National Park for any purpose other than the implementation of the Elk and Vegetation Management Plan. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Rhode Island Federal Worker Fairness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-920
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2007-03-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Blue collar workers
Federal employees
Rhode Island
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: 
Rhode Island Federal Worker Fairness Act of 2007 - States that the wage schedules and rates applicable to prevailing rate employees in the Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, wage area shall be the same as the wage schedules and rates applicable to prevailing rate employees in the Boston, Massachusetts, wage area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-30
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia.
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3355)
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3355)
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-921
Sponsor: Sen. Thomas, Craig [R-WY]
Introduced: 2007-03-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Clinics
Families
Health counseling
Housing and Community Development
Marriage counseling
Medicare
Mental health services
Nursing homes
Psychotherapy
Rural health
Social Welfare
Terminal care

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: 
Seniors Mental Health Access Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide for coverage under Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of marriage and family therapist services and mental health counselor services generally, and particularly such services provided in rural health clinics and in hospice programs. 
 
Amends Medicare part C (Miscellaneous) to exclude such services from the skilled nursing facility prospective payment system. 
 
Authorizes marriage and family therapists to develop discharge plans for post-hospital services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S3356)
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3355-3356)
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to extend the existing provisions regarding the eligibility for essential air service subsidies through fiscal year 2012.

Bill: 110-s-922
Sponsor: Sen. Thune, John [R-SD]
Introduced: 2007-03-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Airline passenger traffic
Airlines
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Housing and Community Development
Subsidies

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: 
Amends the Vision 100-Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act to extend the effective period of final orders of the Secretary of Transportation regarding the eligibility of small communities for essential air service subsidies through September 30, 2012.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3356-3357)
action_date: 2007-03-20
text: Introduced in Senate