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Access to Birth Control Act

Bill: 110-hr-2596
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Confidential communications
Consumer education
Contraceptives
Fines (Penalties)
Law
Pharmacies
Physician-patient privilege

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
Access to Birth Control Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require pharmacies to comply with certain rules related to contraceptives, including: (1) providing a customer a contraceptive without delay if it is in stock; (2) immediately informing a customer if the contraceptive is not in stock and either transferring the prescription to a pharmacy that has the contraceptive in stock or expediting the ordering of the contraceptive and notifying the customer when it arrives, based on customer preference; and (3) ensuring that pharmacy employees do not take certain actions relating to a request for contraception, including intimidating, threatening, or harassing customers, interfering with or obstructing the delivery of services, intentionally misrepresenting or deceiving customers about the availability of contraception or its mechanism of action, breaching or threatening to breach medical confidentiality, or refusing to return a valid, lawful prescription.

Provides that a pharmacy is not prohibited from refusing to provide a contraceptive to a customer if: (1) it is unlawful to dispense the contraceptive to the customer without a valid, lawful prescription and no such prescription is presented; (2) the customer is unable to pay for the contraceptive; or (3) the employee of the pharmacy refuses to provide the contraceptive on the basis of a professional clinical judgment.

Provides that this Act does not preempt state law or any professional obligation of a state board that provides greater protections for customers.

Sets forth civil penalties and establishes a a private cause of action for violations of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
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
Sanctity of Life Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2597
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Abortion
Congress
District courts
Fetus
Government Operations and Politics
Humans
Jurisdiction
Law
Legislation
Local laws
State courts
State laws
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
Sanctity of Life Act of 2007 - Declares that: (1) human life shall be deemed to exist from conception, without regard to race, sex, age, health, defect, or condition of dependency; and (2) the term &quot;person&quot; shall include all such human life. Recognizes that each state has authority to protect the lives of unborn children residing in the jurisdiction of that state .
 
Amends the federal judicial code to remove Supreme Court and district court jurisdiction to review cases arising out of any statute, ordinance, rule, regulation, or practice, or any act interpreting such a measure, on the grounds that such measure: (1) protects the rights of human persons between conception and birth; or (2) prohibits, limits, or regulates the performance of abortions or the provision of public funds, facilities, personnel, or other assistance for abortions.
 
 Makes federal court decisions not binding precedent on the courts of any state or their subdivisions, the District of Columbia, or any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States or their subdivisions.
 
Makes this Act applicable to any case pending on the date of enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1213)
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Introduced in House
Independent Expenditure Opt Out Act

Bill: 110-hr-2598
Sponsor: Rep. Shays, Christopher [R-CT-4]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Campaign funds
Congress
Congressional elections
Political parties
Presidential elections

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
Independent Expenditure Opt Out Act - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to modify the definition of &quot;independent expenditure,&quot; which currently means an expenditure by a person: (1) expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate; and (2) that is not made in concert or cooperation with or at the request or suggestion of such candidate, the candidate's authorized political committee, or their agents, or a political party committee or its agents.
 
Declares that an expenditure made by a political party committee may not be considered to have been made in concert or cooperation with a candidate or an agent or authorized committee of the candidate solely because the candidate has requested that the committee not make any expenditure in support of the candidate or in opposition to an opponent of the candidate.
 
(That is, a political party committee expenditure in support of a candidate, or in opposition to an opponent, may not be disqualified as an independent expenditure solely because the candidate has communicated to the committee a request that it not make such expenditures.)


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
Inactive Reservists Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2599
Sponsor: Rep. Sires, Albio [D-NJ-13]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces reserves
Collection of accounts
Economics and Public Finance
Foreclosure
Government lending
Housing and Community Development
Housing subsidies
Mortgages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
Inactive Reservists Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2007 - Instructs the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to implement a mortgage assistance program through grants and loans for direct mortgage payments for the primary residential property of designated eligible households.
 
Requires such mortgage assistance to be paid monthly directly to the mortgage servicer during the period that a member of the eligible household is serving on active duty for a period of more than 30 days in the Armed Forces, including extensions in the period of such active duty.
 
Sets forth requirements governing: (1) grant assistance, repayment, and repayment in cases of foreclosure; and (2) application procedures.


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
Border Tax Equity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2600
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Exports
Imports
International Affairs
International agencies
Rebates
Trade negotiations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
Border Tax Equity Act of 2007 - Requires the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to submit to Congress a report certifying whether or not U.S. objectives to revise World Trade Organization (WTO) rules on border tax treatment of goods and services from countries with indirect tax systems have been met in WTO negotiations.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) impose a tax on imports of goods and services from any country with an indirect tax system and deposits taxes so collected into a special account; and (2) upon request of a U.S. exporter, grant a rebate to such exporter from such account of indirect taxes paid. Imposes such requirements if the USTR fails to certify to Congress that U.S. objectives have been met.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
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
High Threat Helicopter Flight Area Act

Bill: 110-hr-2603
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-06-06 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air cargo
Air routes
Aviation safety
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Department of Transportation
Employee training
Equipment and supplies
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Helicopters
Labor and Employment
Law
Recruiting of employees
Security measures
Terrorism
Transportation planning

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: 
High Threat Helicopter Flight Area Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security (Secretary) to designate an area at high risk for an attack by one or more terrorists as a high threat helicopter flight area.
 
Directs the Secretary to provide screening of all passengers and property transported from a high threat flight helicopter area on a passenger helicopter equivalent to that provided for passengers and property carried aboard a domestic passenger aircraft. Requires the Secretary to develop a plan for acquiring and training personnel, including acquiring equipment, to provide such screening. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Transportation to take necessary action to ensure that: (1) no passenger helicopter flies in a high threat flight area, except on approach for landing, or departure after takeoff, in such area; (2) a passenger helicopter when flying in such area, to the maximum extent practicable, flies over water; and (3) a helicopter pilot when in flight over such area remains in contact with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regarding its flight path, irrespective of its altitude. Exempts from such requirement helicopters carrying out military, police, medical, or other operations as the Secretary of Transportation deems appropriate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2007-06-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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 Homeland Security, 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 Homeland Security, 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
United Nations Population Fund Women's Health and Dignity Act

Bill: 110-hr-2604
Sponsor: Rep. Crowley, Joseph [D-NY-7]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Abortion
Agriculture and Food
Child sexual abuse
Childbirth
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congressional reporting requirements
Contraceptives
Disaster relief
Drugs
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Environmental Protection
Families
Family planning and birth control
Female circumcision
Food relief
Health
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Human rights
International relief
Marriage
Maternal health services
Medical supplies
Obstetrics
Preventive medicine
Refuse and refuse disposal
Sex discrimination
Sexually transmitted diseases
United Nations finances
Water Resources Development
Water supply
Women
Women's health
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
United Nations Population Fund Women's Health and Dignity Act - Authorizes the President to make a voluntary contribution on a grant basis to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to: (1) provide and distribute equipment, medicine, supplies, and expertise to ensure safe childbirth and emergency obstetric care; (2) make contraceptives available for the prevention of pregnancy and sexually-transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS; (3) reduce abortion and related maternal mortality; (4) reduce and eliminate coercive family planning practices; (5) reduce and eliminate sex selection; (6) prevent and treat cases of obstetric fistula; (7) promote abandonment of harmful traditional practices, including female genital cutting and child marriage; (8) reestablish maternal health services in areas where medical infrastructure has been destroyed by natural disasters; and (9) promote the access of unaccompanied women and other vulnerable people to vital services, including access to water, sanitation facilities, food, and health care, in emergency situations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in House
Sunset of Public Law 107-243 Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2605
Sponsor: Rep. Paul, Ron [R-TX-14]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional oversight
Government Operations and Politics
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Legislation
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Military operations
President and foreign policy
Sunset legislation
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
Sunset of Public Law 107-243 Act of 2007 - Amends the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002 (Public Law 107-243) to terminate such Act 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act.
 
States that nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent or prohibit Congress, during the 180-day period, from: (1) reauthorizing Public Law 107-243; or (2) passing a new authorization for the use of military force against Iraq or a declaration of war against Iraq.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1237)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in House
340B Program Improvement and Integrity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2606
Sponsor: Rep. Rush, Bobby L. [D-IL-1]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative remedies
Ambulatory care
Commerce
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug industry
Drugs
Generic drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Hospitals
Housing and Community Development
Law
Medicaid
Prescription pricing
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
340B Program Improvement and Integrity Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to expand the drug discount program to allow participation as a covered entity by certain: (1) children's hospitals; (2) critical access hospitals; (3) entities providing maternal and child health services, community mental health services, or treatment services for substance abuse; (4) Medicare-dependent, small rural hospitals; (5) sole community hospitals; and (6) rural referral centers. Prohibits enrolled hospitals from obtaining covered outpatient drugs through a group purchasing arrangement. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish reasonable exceptions to such requirements, including for drugs unavailable through the program and to facilitate generic substitution when a generic covered drug is available at a lower price. 

Expands the program to include a drug used in connection with an inpatient or outpatient service by enrolled hospitals. (Currently, only outpatient drugs are covered under the program.)

Requires hospitals enrolled in the 340B drug discount program to provide to each state a credit on the estimated annual costs to such hospital of single source and innovator multiple source drugs and noninnovator multiple source drugs provided to Medicaid recipients for inpatient use. Sets forth a formula for calculating the credit. Allows a hospital to avoid paying such credits under certain circumstances. 

Requires the Secretary to: (1) carry out activities to improve compliance by manufacturers and covered entities with the requirements of the drug discount program; and (2) establish an administrative process for resolving claims by covered entities and manufacturers of violations of such requirements.

Requires manufacturers to offer each covered entity covered drugs for purchase at or below the applicable ceiling price if such a drug is made available to any other purchaser at any price.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in House
Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2607
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative fees
Collection of accounts
Economics and Public Finance
Gambling
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Internet
Law
Licenses
Science, Technology, Communications
Sports and Recreation
State taxation
Tax administration
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
Internet Gambling Regulation and Tax Enforcement Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish licensing requirements and fees for Internet gambling operators.

Requires Internet gambling operators to pay to the Director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network during each 30-day period of operation a license fee of 2% of all bets and wagers placed during the preceding 30-day period.

Requires the Director to grant Internet gambling licenses to applicants who meet criteria set by the Director and are generally fit to engage in the business of Internet gambling. Requires such operators to adopt appropriate mechanisms to ensure the collection of all taxes and license fees relating to Internet gambling that become due to federal and state governments. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H6166)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in House
Empowering Children with Autism through Education Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2609
Sponsor: Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Autism
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Cost effectiveness
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Higher education
Learning
Mathematics
Reading
Secondary education
Special education
Teacher education
Teaching

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
Empowering Children with Autism through Education Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Education to establish the Empowering Children with Autism through Education Task Force to identify and disseminate evidence-based educational strategies and promising best practices to improve the quality of learning for individuals with autism in grades K-12, including regarding: (1) learning models, interventions, and services that demonstrate improvements in reading, writing, and math proficiency; (2) the cost-effectiveness of these learning models, interventions, and services, and their applicability for local education agencies; (3) professional development needs of educators; (4) methods for incorporating state-, local- and community-based programs and services into the classroom to provide comprehensive support; (5) identification of barriers to successful implementation of programs and services and recommendations to address those barriers; and (6) dissemination of findings to Congress, all relevant agencies, and states and U.S. territories to improve the quality of learning for individuals with autism.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in House
Mentoring America's Children Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2611
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2007-06-07 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Alaska
Colleges
Commerce
Community and school
Corporations
Crime and Law Enforcement
Dropouts
Drug abuse
Drug abuse prevention
Drugs and youth
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational research
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Ethics
Ex-offenders
Families
Federal aid to education
Gangs
Hawaiians
Higher education
Indian education
Indigenous peoples
Juvenile delinquency
Mentoring
Minorities
Minority education
Native Americans
Performance measurement
School security
Secondary education
Suburbs
Violence
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: 
Mentoring America's Children Act of 2007 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to make miscellaneous changes to the Mentoring grant program under title IV that include: (1) improvement of school connectedness and character education among mentoring's purposes; (2) corporations, universities, and other entities among program providers; (3) a requirement that mentors help children become responsible and successful adults; (4) suburban children in high crime areas and children living in high gang involvement, drug use, or dropout areas among those most in need of mentoring; (5) limitation of each mentor to no more than three children; and (6) mandatory information on grant applicants about plans for monitoring mentor/mentee matches and the satisfaction of grant matching requirements that increase from 10% to 50% over the three-year grant term; 

Allows grantees to be considered for new grants if: (1) their prior performance was satisfactory; (2) they propose to use the new grant exclusively for expanded service to a new area or population; and (3) they are able to provide a 50% match to the new grant funds. 

Directs the Secretary of Education to: (1) provide training and technical assistance to, and track and evaluate the performance of, grantees; and (2) arrange for research on school-based mentoring, the results of which are to be provided to the mentoring community.

 Includes mentoring in ESEA programs for: (1) Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaskan Native education; (2) the transitioning of youth offenders into education; and (3) school violence and drug abuse prevention.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1246)
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Introduced in House