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Pathway to Preservation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-655
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Affordable housing
Apartment houses
Building laws
Cooperative housing
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Home repair and improvement
Mortgages
Real estate appraisal
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Surplus government property

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Pathway to Preservation Act of 2007 - Amends the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 to redefine &quot;loan market value,&quot; which currently means the value of a multifamily (rental or cooperative housing project) loan, without taking into account any affordability requirements. Repeals the condition that affordability requirements not be taken into account. Defines &quot;loan market value&quot; as the value of a multifamily (rental or cooperative housing project) loan using industry standard appraisal practices, including consideration of the cost of repairs needed for the property subject to the loan to comply with minimum safety and building standards and the cost of maintaining the affordability restrictions applicable under the original loan or grant for the property.
 
Redefines &quot;property market value,&quot; which currently means the value of a multifamily (rental or cooperative housing project) real property for its current use, without taking into account any affordability requirements. Repeals the condition that affordability requirements not be taken into account. Defines &quot;property market value&quot; as the value of a multifamily (rental or cooperative housing project) real property for its current use, as determined using industry standard appraisal practices, including consideration of the cost of repairs needed for the property subject to the loan to comply with minimum safety and building standards and the cost of maintaining the affordability restrictions applicable under the original loan or grant for the property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
To require higher standards of automobile fuel efficiency with the goal of reducing the amount of oil used for fuel by automobiles in the United States by 10 percent beginning in 2017, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-656
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Automobile industry
Commerce
Department of Transportation
Energy efficiency
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Labor and Employment
Law
Motor vehicle safety
Standards
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Amends federal transportation law to direct the Secretary of Transportation by regulation to prescribe (corporate) average fuel economy (CAFE) standards for automobiles manufactured after 2009 that ensure that the CAFE achieved by automobiles manufactured after 2016 is at least 33 miles per gallon, and meets other specified criteria. Authorizes the Secretary to establish separate standards for different classes of automobiles according to size.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to establish a CAFE credit trading program to allow a manufacturer that exceeds fuel economy standards to sell credits to another manufacturer.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Military Retiree Survivor Comfort Act

Bill: 110-hr-657
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Bank accounts
Collection of accounts
Death
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic funds transfers
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Labor and Employment
Military pay
Military pensions
Science, Technology, Communications
Survivors' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Military Retiree Survivor Comfort Act - Requires the United States to forgive any overpayment of military retired or retainer pay for any period after the death of the recipient through the last day of the month in which such death occurs, if such payment is electronically deposited to a joint account bearing the name of the decedent and the decedent's designated beneficiary.
 
Provides a special effective date for the first annuity payment to a survivor under the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) when an overpayment is so forgiven.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Canine Detection Team Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-659
Sponsor: Rep. Rogers, Mike D. [R-AL-3]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Animal breeding
Animals
Border patrols
Boundaries
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Homeland Security
Directories
Dogs
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Executive reorganization
Explosives
Federal aid to law enforcement
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government procurement
International Affairs
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Police training
Standards
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Canine Detection Team Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to: (1) fully coordinate Department of Homeland Security (DHS) canine training programs; (2) ensure that DHS is maximizing its use of existing training facilities and resources to train canines throughout the year; (3) make it a priority to increase the number of domestically bred canines used by DHS to assist its counterterrorism mission; (4) increase the utilization of domestically bred canines from universities and private and nonprofit sources; and (5) consult with other federal, state, and local agencies, nonprofit organizations, universities, and private entities that use detection canines, as well as the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), to encourage domestic breeding of canines and to consolidate canine procurement across the federal government.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a competitive grant program for domestic breeders of canines; (2) establish a Homeland Security Canine Detection Accreditation Board; and (3) prohibit the use of grant funds to acquire a canine detection team that is not certified, except under special circumstances.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Management, Investigations, and Oversight.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Downed Animal and Food Safety Protection Act

Bill: 110-hr-661
Sponsor: Rep. Ackerman, Gary L. [D-NY-5]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural industries
Animal diseases
Animals
Bovine spongiform encephalopathy
Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Agriculture
Euthanasia
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Labeling
Law
Livestock
Meat inspection
Meat packing industry
Protection of animals
Veterinary medicine

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Downed Animal and Food Safety Protection Act - States that it is U.S. policy that all nonambulatory livestock in interstate and foreign commerce be immediately and humanely euthanized when such livestock become nonambulatory. 
 
Amends the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act of 1958 to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to promulgate regulations providing for the humane treatment, handling, and disposition of nonambulatory livestock by a covered entity, including a requirement that nonambulatory livestock be humanely euthanized. 
 
Requires an entity to: (1) humanely euthanize nonambulatory livestock (while not limiting the Secretary's ability to test nonambulatory livestock for disease, such as bovine spongiform encephalopathy); and (2) not move nonambulatory livestock while such livestock is conscious, and ensure that such livestock remains unconscious until death.
 
Prohibits an inspector at an establishment covered by the Federal Meat Inspection Act to pass nonambulatory livestock, carcass, or carcass parts through inspection. Requires an inspector or other employee at such establishment to label such material as &quot;inspected and condemned.&quot;
 
Defines "covered entity," &quot;nonambulatory livestock,&quot; and "humanely euthanize." 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Latin Americans of Japanese Descent Act

Bill: 110-hr-662
Sponsor: Rep. Becerra, Xavier [D-CA-31]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Concentration camps
Congressional reporting requirements
Deportation
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
History
Immigration
Japanese Americans
Latin America
Latin Americans
Prisoners of war
Relocation
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Latin Americans of Japanese Descent Act - Establishes the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Latin Americans of Japanese descent.
 
Directs the Commission to: (1) extend the study of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians to investigate U.S. relocation, internment, and (in some cases) deportation to Axis countries of Latin Americans of Japanese descent held in U.S. custody from December 1941 through February 1948; and (2) recommend appropriate remedies to Congress based on preliminary findings by the original Commission and new discoveries.
 
Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission
 
of its report to Congress (as required by this Act).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E183-184)
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 to expand the county organized health insuring organizations authorized to enroll Medicaid beneficiaries.

Bill: 110-hr-665
Sponsor: Rep. Capps, Lois [D-CA-23]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: California
County politics and government
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government insurance
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Medicaid
Social Welfare
Welfare waivers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Amends the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985, as added by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 and as amended by the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Benefits Improvement and Protection Act of 2000, to add health insuring organizations operated by public entities established by Ventura and Merced Counties, California, to the number of county-organized health insuring organizations in California authorized to enroll Medicaid beneficiaries under title XIX of the Social Security Act.

Increases from 14% to 16% the maximum percentage of California Medicaid beneficiaries which may be enrolled with such organizations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Healthcare Disclosure Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-666
Sponsor: Rep. Cooper, Jim [D-TN-5]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee health benefits
Health
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Tax exclusion
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Healthcare Disclosure Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require employers to include in employee wage statements (i.e., W-2 forms) the total amount paid for coverage under an accident or health plan which is excludable from gross income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Early Pest Detection and Surveillance Improvement Act

Bill: 110-hr-667
Sponsor: Rep. Costa, Jim [D-CA-20]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Airports
Ecological surveys
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental monitoring
Exotic plants
Federal-state relations
Federal-territorial relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Marine terminals
Non-native species
Pest control
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Risk
Transportation and Public Works
Weeds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Early Pest Detection and Surveillance Improvement Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into a cooperative agreement with any state department of agriculture that agrees to conduct early plant pest detection surveillance activities, including inspection and surveillance of domestic plant shipments between a state and other states. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-02
text: Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from USDA.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Executive Comment Requested from USDA.
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Horticulture and Organic Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Web Video Violence Act

Bill: 110-hr-668
Sponsor: Rep. Diaz-Balart, Mario [R-FL-25]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to law enforcement
Fines (Penalties)
Government Operations and Politics
Internet
Photography
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
State laws
Video tape recording
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Web Video Violence Act - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to reduce funding under such Act for states which fail to certify that their laws or official policies require increased penalties for a criminal defendant convicted of a violent crime who places a video or image of the commission of such crime on the Internet.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Labor to make a grant to a public university to establish the Center for the Study of Women and Workplace Policy.

Bill: 110-hr-669
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Business education
Chief executive officers
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
College teachers
Commerce
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporation directors
Data banks
Discrimination in employment
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publications
Government publicity
Higher education
Pay equity
Policy sciences
Science, Technology, Communications
Sex discrimination
Women
Women in business
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Labor to make a grant, to a public university with specified characteristics, to establish the Center for the Study of Women and Workplace Policy. 
 
Requires the Center to: (1) compile and analyze available data and data sets on the difference between the earnings of men and women, including the Panel Study of Income Dynamics housed at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; (2) identify factors which affect differences in earnings; and (3) disseminate findings, maintain a website as a clearinghouse, and publish an annual best practices guide.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Caribbean National Forest Preservation Act

Bill: 110-hr-671
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Fortuno, Luis G. [R-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
Caribbean area
Economics and Public Finance
Land transfers
National forests
Puerto Rico
Tropical forests
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Caribbean National Forest Preservation Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to acquire, by donation or purchase, from willing sellers tracts of land intended to assist in the consolidation of lands within or adjacent to the boundaries of the Caribbean National Forest in Puerto Rico. Requires the Secretary to adjust the boundaries of the Caribbean National Forest to include acquired lands. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Puerto Rico Karst Conservation Act

Bill: 110-hr-672
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Fortuno, Luis G. [R-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Animals
Aquifers
Biological diversity
Ecological research
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Environmental Protection
Fishes
Forest conservation
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Grants-in-aid
Infrastructure
Land transfers
National forests
Nature conservation
Outdoor recreation
Puerto Rico
Real estate appraisal
Science, Technology, Communications
Sports and Recreation
Tropical forests
User charges
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water quality
Water supply
Watersheds
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Puerto Rico Karst Conservation Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to make grants, enter contracts, and exercise specified authorities to acquire, protect, and manage land and forest resources in and adjacent to the Karst Region of Puerto Rico for the purpose of protecting and conserving the water quality and aquifers and the geological, ecological, fish and wildlife, and other natural values of the Region.
 
 Establishes the Puerto Rico Karst Conservation Fund which shall be available to the Secretary for purposes of this Act.
 
Makes all lands in the Region eligible for inclusion in the Forest Legacy Program.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
Cocopah Lands Act

Bill: 110-hr-673
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2007-01-24 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Arizona
Federal-Indian relations
Gambling
Indian lands
Land transfers
Minorities
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: 
Cocopah Lands Act - Provides that if the Cocopah Indian Tribe of Arizona transfers title to certain described land to the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary shall take it into trust for the benefit of the Tribe, if there are no adverse legal claims to it, including outstanding liens, mortgages, or taxes owed. Considers such land to be part of the Tribe's initial reservation. Prohibits its use for gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. 

action_date: 2007-07-30
text: 
Cocopah Lands Act - Provides that if the Cocopah Indian Tribe of Arizona transfers title to certain described land to the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary shall take it into trust for the benefit of the Tribe, if there are no recognized environmental conditions or contamination related concerns and no adverse legal claims to it, including outstanding liens, mortgages, or taxes owed. 
 
Considers such land to be part of the Tribe's initial reservation. 
 
Designates Yuma county, Arizona, to be the Tribe's service area for the delivery of federal services to enrolled members of the Tribe. 
 
Prohibits its use for gaming under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Indian Affairs.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: The title of the measure was amended. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: On passage Passed without objection.
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Considered by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR H8825-8826; text of measure as introduced: CR H8825-8826)
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Mrs. Christensen asked unanimous consent discharge the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union.
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 110-271.
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 173.
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 110-271.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-06-13
text: Committee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Introduced in House