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State and Local Flexibility Improvement Act

Bill: 110-hr-2577
Sponsor: Rep. McKeon, Howard P. "Buck" [R-CA-25]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Community and school
Compensatory education
Congressional reporting requirements
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational innovations
Educational statistics
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Higher education
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Recruiting of employees
School choice
School districts
School security
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
State and Local Flexibility Improvement Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to give states and local educational agencies (LEAs) greater flexibility in transferring federal funds among specified ESEA programs (relating to teachers, technology, safe and drug-free schools, 21st Century Community Learning Centers, and innovative programs) and from such programs to their allotments under title I.
 
Replaces the current State and Local Flexibility Demonstration under title VI of the ESEA with a program allowing states to enter five-year performance agreements with the Secretary of Education, and states to enter into performance agreements with LEAs, to: (1) waive statutory and regulatory requirements; (2) consolidate ESEA funds provided for improving student achievement and narrowing achievement gaps, for use in furthering any state educational purpose; and (3) use an alternative method of allocating school improvement funds under part A of title I to more effectively target LEAs and schools serving high proportions of needy students.
 
Holds states, LEAs, and schools to the requirement that they make adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward challenging state academic performance standards; but allows states to use additional models and systems for measuring AYP, such as longitudinal growth models.
 
Requires states to give performance agreement priority to LEAs that have failed to make AYP for the two preceding academic years and serve a high percentage of needy students.
 
Allows the Secretary to terminate an agreement with a state that fails to meet its terms for three consecutive school years.
 
Lowers the minimum percentage of needy children a school must serve before its LEA may implement a schoolwide program consolidating school improvement funds for use in upgrading the school's entire educational program. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
Empowerment Zone and Renewal Community Enhancement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2578
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Artur [D-AL-7]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bonds
Construction costs
Economics and Public Finance
Enterprise zones
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Residence requirements
Rural economic development
Tax credits
Tax deductions
Tax exemption
Urban affairs
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
Empowerment Zone and Renewal Community Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to tax-preferred empowerment zones, rural enterprise communities, and renewal communities to: (1) extend the period of designation for such areas through 2015; (2) provide a safe harbor standard for employee residency requirements in empowerment zones; (3) eliminate certain residency requirements for the empowerment zone employment tax credit; (4) grant authority to expand the boundaries of empowerment zones and enterprise communities, including those located in rural areas; (5) allow carryovers of unused expensing allowances for enterprise zone businesses; (6) allow certain empowerment zone businesses to elect to receive payments in lieu of tax benefits; (7) allow federal guarantees and tax exemptions for enterprise zones and renewal communities; and (8) allow the issuance of tax-exempt rural enterprise community bonds.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to authorize the use of funds in the Department of Veterans Affairs readjustment benefits accounts and funds appropriated for such purpose to provide funding for State approving agencies.

Bill: 110-hr-2579
Sponsor: Rep. Boozman, John [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Education
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to make payments to state and local approving agencies (agencies that approve educational courses for veterans) out of amounts in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) readjustment benefits account (under current law, out of amounts available for the payment of readjustment benefits) and out of amounts appropriated to the Secretary for such purpose. Makes $13 million the fiscal year amount to be paid from the readjustment benefits account.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-21
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-06-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to permit States to expand coverage for children between 19 and 25 years of age under Medicaid and under the State child health insurance program (SCHIP).

Bill: 110-hr-2581
Sponsor: Rep. Baldwin, Tammy [D-WI-2]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) to permit states to expand coverage for children between 18 and 25 years of age.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
Qualified Long-term Care Fairness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2582
Sponsor: Rep. Brown-Waite, Ginny [R-FL-5]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Income tax
Long-term care
Long-term care insurance
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
Qualified Long-term Care Fairness Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax deduction from gross income for the cost of long-term care services and long-term care insurance contracts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
Securities and Exchange Commission Authority Restoration Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2586
Sponsor: Rep. Capuano, Michael E. [D-MA-8]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Futures trading
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Independent regulatory commissions
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Investment advisers
Law
Mutual funds
Securities and Exchange Commission
Securities regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
Securities and Exchange Commission Authority Restoration Act of 2007 - Amends the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 with respect to the exemption from the requirement of registration for any investment adviser: (1) who has had fewer than fifteen clients during the course of the preceding twelve months; and (2) who neither holds himself out generally to the public as an investment adviser, nor acts an an investment adviser to any registered investment company or a company which has elected to be a business development company.
 
Authorizes the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to: (1) limit the availability of this exemption; and (2) require the registration of any investment adviser by requiring that certain shareholders, partners, and beneficial owners of, or investors in, clients of the adviser be counted as clients themselves.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
Comprehensive Coverdell Modernization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2588
Sponsor: Rep. Drake, Thelma D. [R-VA-2]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education savings accounts
Higher education
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
Comprehensive Coverdell Modernization Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase from $2,000 to $4,000 the annual contribution limit to Coverdell education savings accounts; and (2) adjust such contribution limit for inflation after 2008.

Makes permanent provisions enacted by the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 relating to Coverdell education savings accounts and qualified tuition programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
Improving Pharmaceuticals for Children Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2589
Sponsor: Rep. Eshoo, Anna G. [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Child health
Clinical trials
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drugs
Families
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Intellectual property
Labeling
Law
Licenses
Medical research
Patents
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
Improving Pharmaceuticals for Children Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise provisions relating to market exclusivity for pediatric drug studies on new or already approved drugs to: (1) require that appropriate labeling changes are timely made; and (2) prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services from extending the period of market exclusivity later than one year prior to the expiration of such period.
 
Directs the Secretary to: (1) publish a notice identifying any drug for which a pediatric formulation was developed, studied, and found to be safe and effective in the pediatric population if such formulation is not introduced onto the market within one year; and (2) order the labeling of a drug to include information about the results of a pediatric study.
 
Requires the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Heath (NIH), to develop, publish, and revise a priority list of needs in pediatric therapeutics.
 
Revises requirements for the submission of pediatric assessments of the safety and effectiveness of a drug or biological product with a new drug or supplemental application to require an applicant seeking: (1) a deferral of such requirements to submit a timeline for the completion of such studies; and (2) a waiver of such requirements to submit documentation detailing why a pediatric formulation cannot be developed.
 
Considers a supplement to any new drug or biological license application proposing a labeling change as a result of any pediatric assessment to be a priority application or supplement. 
 
Requires the Comptroller General to study the effectiveness of federal law in ensuring that medicines used by children are tested and properly labeled.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
To provide for an additional requirements payment under the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to ensure that Puerto Rico is treated in the same manner as other States for purposes of determining the amount of the requirements payment made under such Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-2590
Sponsor: Resident Commissioner Fortuno, Luis G. [R-PR-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional elections
Economics and Public Finance
Election administration
Federal-territorial relations
Grants-in-aid
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Presidential elections
Puerto Rico

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
Directs the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to make an additional payment to the State Election Commission of Puerto Rico to assist it to meet federal election administration requirements under the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA).

Requires the EAC to make such a requirements payment in an amount that would treat Puerto Rico in the same manner as each of the several states and the District of Columbia.

Amends HAVA to revise the formula for determining the minimum amount of requirements payments to Puerto Rico.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend part B of title XVIII of the Social Security Act to limit the penalty for late enrollment under part B of the Medicare Program to 10 percent and twice the period of no enrollment, and to exclude periods of COBRA and retiree coverage from such late enrollment penalty.

Bill: 110-hr-2591
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Employee health benefits
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance continuation
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Medicare
Retiree health benefits
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
Amends part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to: (1) limit the penalty for late enrollment under part B to 10% and twice the period of no enrollment; and (2) exclude periods of COBRA and retiree coverage from such late enrollment penalty.
 
Provides for a special enrollment period for individuals whose COBRA or retiree coverage terminates.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-06
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: 2007-06-06
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: 2007-06-06
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: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
Safe and Effective Drug Development Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2592
Sponsor: Rep. Giffords, Gabrielle [D-AZ-8]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Colleges
Commerce
Conflict of interests
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug industry
Drugs
Education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Law
Medical innovations
Medical research
Medical supplies
Medical technology
Product development
Product safety
Public-private partnerships
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
Safe and Effective Drug Development Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, to enter into Critical Path Public-Private Partnerships with eligible entities to implement the Critical Path Initiative of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) by developing research, education, and outreach projects to foster medical product innovation, accelerate medical product development, and enhance medical product safety. Prohibits such an entity from accepting any funding for the technical programs of a Critical Path Public-Private Partnership from any individual or organization that manufactures, distributes, or sells any FDA-regulated product. Establishes an exception for accepting funds from a consortium of companies whose products are FDA-regulated if the Secretary determines that such acceptance would not result in any conflict of interest and issues a waiver.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
Safe and Fuel Efficient Driving Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2594
Sponsor: Rep. Knollenberg, Joe [R-MI-9]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Motor vehicle safety
Public service advertising
Traffic accidents and safety

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
Safe and Fuel Efficient Driving Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of Energy to jointly develop a multiyear public relations and education campaign to promote responsible and fuel-efficient driving in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require the disclosure of proxy votes relating to executive and director compensation by beneficial owners of more than 5 percent of a company's shares.

Bill: 110-hr-2595
Sponsor: Rep. Mahoney, Tim [D-FL-16]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Commerce
Executive compensation
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Labor and Employment
Securities regulation
Stockholders
Voting

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1943 to require certain persons acquiring more than 5% of certain classes of securities to report to the security issuer and to the exchange where the security is traded: (1) how the votes for such shares were cast on any proxy or consent or authorization in respect of any such security relating to executive and director compensation proposals, including a description of the matter voted on; and (2) a description of any relationship between the person filing the statement and the security issuer, or between the person filing the statement and any other person required to file a statement regarding such securities.
 
Directs the Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) to promulgate a requirement that such information be updated annually. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House