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Coinage Materials Modernization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1986
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Coins and coinage
Department of the Treasury
Government Operations and Politics
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Coinage Materials Modernization Act of 2007 - Removes restrictions on the weight of, and requirements concerning the metal in, the U.S. half dollar, quarter, dime, nickel, and penny. 

Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to prescribe the weight and composition of the dollar, half dollar, quarter, dime, five-cent, and one-cent coins. (Currently, the Secretary is authorized to prescribe the weight and the composition of copper and zinc in the alloy of the penny in specified circumstances.)

Authorizes the Secretary to prescribe manufacturing tolerances for the nickel and penny.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide for alternative motor vehicle facility bonds.

Bill: 110-s-1987
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Automobile industry
Bonds
Commerce
Electric vehicles
Energy
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Industrial buildings
Tax exemption
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the issuance of tax-exempt facility bonds through 2012 to make automobile development and production facilities built before 1981 compatible for the development and production of qualified alternative motor vehicles and component parts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
First-Time Homebuyers' Tax Credit Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1988
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Income tax
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: First-Time Homebuyers' Tax Credit Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow an income-based, one-time refundable tax credit for first-time homebuyers of ten percent of a principal residence's purchase price ($3,000 maximum credit, $6,000 maximum credit for joint filers); (2) allow transfer of such credit (within 30 days of transfer application) as payment towards related downpayment and closing costs; and (3) apply the credit to purchases made on or after January 1, 2008, and before January 1, 2013, and to binding contracts made between such dates, and in which the residence is occupied before July 1, 2014.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Pigford Claims Remedy Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1989
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural credit
Blacks
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Claims
Consent decrees
Damages
Farmers
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreclosure
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government paperwork
Law
Limitation of actions
Minorities
Racial discrimination
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Pigford Claims Remedy Act of 2007 - Declares that any Pigford claimant (relating to a racial discrimination action against the Department of Agriculture) who has not previously obtained a determination on the merits of a Pigford claim may, in a civil action, obtain that determination. 

Asserts that it is Congress's intent that this Act be liberally construed so as to effectuate its remedial purpose of giving a full determination on the merits for each denied Pigford claim. 

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide a claimant with a report on farm credit loans made within the claimant's county or adjacent county during a specified period which shall contain information on all accepted applicants (but without any personally identifiable information), including: (1) the applicant's race; (2) the application and loan decision dates; and (3) the location of the office making the loan decision. 

Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) expedited claim resolution; and (2) foreclosure limitation. 

Defines: (1) &quot;Pigford claimant&quot; as an individual who previously submitted a late-filing request under the consent decree in the case of 
Pigford v. Glickman 
(1999); and (2) &quot;Pigford claim&quot; as a discrimination complaint as defined and documented by such consent decree.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Build, Update, Improve, Lift, and Design Health Centers Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1990
Sponsor: Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Federally-guaranteed loans
Finance and Financial Sector
Loans

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Build, Update, Improve, Lift, and Design Health Centers Act of 2007 or the BUILD Act &#150; Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to health centers to: (1) modernize, expand, and replace existing facilities; and (2) construct new facilities at such centers.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a loan guarantee program for loans to health centers for capital need projects, including: (1) acquiring, leasing, modernizing, expanding, or replacing existing facilities; (2) constructing new facilities; (3) purchasing or leasing equipment; and (4) the costs of refinancing loans made for any such projects.
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10905-10906)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10905)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Extension Study Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1991
Sponsor: Sen. Bunning, Jim [R-KY]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Delaware
District of Columbia
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Maryland
Missouri
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Sports and Recreation
Tennessee
Trails
Virginia
West (U.S.)
West Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Extension Study Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine the suitability and feasibility of extending the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail to include the Eastern Legacy sites (the sites associated with the preparation or return phases of the Lewis and Clark expedition, commonly known as the &quot;Eastern Legacy,&quot; including sites in Virginia, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Missouri, and Illinois). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5530)
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 658.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with amendments. With written report No. 110-306.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with amendments. With written report No. 110-306.
action_date: 2008-01-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with amendments favorably.
action_date: 2007-11-08
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-282.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10906)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to preserve the recall rights of airline employees, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-1992
Sponsor: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Airline employees
Civil actions and liability
Economics and Public Finance
Employee rights
Federal aid to transportation
Law
Layoffs
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Requires an air carrier that furloughs an airline employee to retain such employee on a recall list for not less than 10 years after the furlough, provided the air carrier: (1) receives more than $100 million in federal assistance; and (2) places such employee on furlough not later than two years after receiving such assistance. Requires such air carrier, before employing a person who is not on the recall list, to recall an employee from the recall list if such employee was employed in a position comparable to the position the air carrier seeks to fill.
 
Authorizes a furloughed employee (including any labor organization that represents such employee) to bring an action in U.S. district court to enforce this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park Boundary Adjustment Act

Bill: 110-s-1993
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
Commemorations
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
Land transfers
Maps
Minorities
Native Americans
Ohio

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Hopewell Culture National Historical Park Boundary Adjustment Act - Modifies the boundary of the Hopewell Culture National Historical Park in Ohio to include certain lands marked for inclusion in the Park. Permits the acquisition of lands added under this Act only from willing sellers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-09
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-480.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exempt certain farmland from the estate tax.

Bill: 110-s-1994
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Estate tax
Families
Family farms
Farm lands
Land transfers
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross estate of a decedent the value of farmland used by an heir of the decedent for farming purposes. Imposes a recapture tax on an heir who disposes of such farmland after the decedent's death or who ceases to use it for farming purposes. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce the tax on beer to its pre-1991 level.

Bill: 110-s-1995
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alcohol tax
Beer

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce from $18 to $9 (its pre-1991 level) the per-barrel tax on beer.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
FAIR Fuel Act

Bill: 110-s-1997
Sponsor: Sen. McCaskill, Claire [D-MO]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Consumer protection
Economics and Public Finance
Energy
Equipment and supplies
Fines (Penalties)
Gasoline
Government trust funds
Law
Service stations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Future Accountability in Retail Fuel Act or the FAIR Fuel Act - Requires, after a specified period, all new and existing motor fuel dispensers at retail fuel stations to be equipped with automatic temperature compensation equipment.
 
Requires state inspectors to conduct annual inspections of motor fuel dispensers at such stations and to notify the Federal Trade Commission of any noncompliance with the requirements of this Act. Subjects owners or operators of retail fuel stations who are not in compliance to certain fines.
 
Establishes the Automatic Temperature Compensation Equipment Trust Fund. Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to use amounts in the Trust Fund to award grants to owners and operators of retail fuel stations to offset the costs for the installation of automatic temperature compensation equipment on motor fuel dispensers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
International Child Marriage Prevention and Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1998
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Child health
Child welfare
Childbirth
Children's rights
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Clinics
Community organization
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Credit
Developing countries
Economic assistance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Family planning and birth control
Finance and Financial Sector
Gynecology
Health
Health education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Human rights
Labor and Employment
Marriage
Maternal health services
Medical centers
Mortality
Saving and investment
Sex discrimination
Surgery
Vocational and technical education
Women
Women in public life
Women's education
Women's health
Women's rights
World health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
International Child Marriage Prevention and Protection Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of State to develop a comprehensive strategy to reduce the incidences of child marriage by further integrating this issue into U.S. development efforts. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on such strategy and on child marriage and related U.S. assistance programs.
 
Authorizes the President to provide assistance for programs to reduce the incidences of child marriage and promote the empowerment of girls, including support for the treatment and reduction of fistula in countries with high rates of such surgery.
 
Requires the Secretary to work through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and other appropriate agencies as part of their ongoing research and data collection activities concerning child marriage.
 
Requires the Secretary to include in the Department of State's Annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices a section for each country where child marriage is prevalent, outlining the status of the practice.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S10906-10908)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the establishment of a Center of Excellence in Prevention, Diagnosis, Mitigation, Treatment, and Rehabilitation of Military Eye Injuries, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-1999
Sponsor: Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Armed forces abroad
Brain
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Eye care
Eye diseases
Governmental investigations
Head injuries
Health
Health information systems
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Medical research
Medical screening
Middle East and North Africa
Military hospitals
Military medicine
Military operations
Science, Technology, Communications
South Asia
Surgery
Trauma care
Veterans' hospitals
Veterans' medical care
Veterans' rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to establish within the Department of Defense (DOD) the Center of Excellence in Prevention, Diagnosis, Mitigation, Treatment, and Rehabilitation of Military Eye Injuries to: (1) develop, implement, and oversee a registry for tracking the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up for each case of eye injury incurred by a member of the Armed Forces in combat that requires surgery or other operative intervention; and (2) ensure the electronic exchange of registry information with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) include in the registry records of members who incurred eye injuries in combat in Operations Iraqi Freedom or Enduring Freedom before the registry's establishment; and (2) report to Congress on the Center's establishment.
 
Directs the Secretary and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to conduct a cooperative study on neuro-optometric screening and diagnosis of members with traumatic brain injury (TBI) by military medical treatment facilities and VA medical centers for purposes of vision screening, diagnosis, rehabilitative management, and vision research on visual dysfunction related to TBI.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
Export Enforcement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2000
Sponsor: Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Department of Commerce
Executive reorganization
Export controls
Fines (Penalties)
Forfeiture
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Judicial review
Law
Limitation of actions
Undercover operations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Export Enforcement Act of 2007 - Amends the Export Administration Act of 1979 (the Act) to place the Office of Foreign Availability under the direction of the Under Secretary of Commerce for Industry and Security (under current law, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration).
 
Increases penalties for violations of the Act.
 
Sets forth a five-year statute of limitations for commencing a proceeding in which a civil penalty or other administrative sanction is sought under the Act.
 
Modifies enforcement mechanisms under the Act. Subjects tangible items lawfully seized by U.S. designated officers or employees to forfeiture. Specifies the use of funds made available for undercover investigation operations by the Office of Export Enforcement.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Commerce, without fiscal year limitations, to expend funds transferred to, paid to, received by, or made available to the Bureau of Industry and Security of the Department of Commerce as a reimbursement.
 
Exempts functions exercised under the Export Administration Regulations as maintained and amended under the authority of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act from administrative procedure and judicial review.
 
Amends the Tariff Act of 1930 to subject every person involved in the export of merchandise contrary to law to a monetary penalty.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
REIT Investment Diversification and Empowerment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2002
Sponsor: Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Contractors
Dividends
Excise tax
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Foreign exchange
Futures trading
Health
Health facilities
Income tax
Leases
Real estate investment
Rent
Securities
Stocks
Subsidiary corporations
Tax administration
Tax exclusion
Tax penalties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
REIT Investment Diversification and Empowerment Act of 2007 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to real estate investment trusts (REITs) to: (1) treat passive foreign exchange gains attributable to overseas real estate investment as qualifying REIT income; (2) increase from 20 to 25% the the maximum value of a REIT's total assets thay may be represented by securities of one or more taxable REIT subsidiaries; (3) revise safe harbor rules for the excise tax penalty on certain REIT sales activities; (4) treat rental payments made by a health care facility to a REIT as qualifying REIT income; and (5) treat income from, and interests in, foreign-qualified REITs as qualifying REIT income and assets. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10931-10932)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to facilitate the part-time reemployment of annuitants, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-s-2003
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-08-03 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Annuities
Civil service retirement
Federal employees
Labor and Employment
Salaries

Summary:
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: 
Allows a federal agency head to waive the application of civil service retirement system and federal employee retirement system provisions restricting annuities and pay upon reemployment with respect to an annuitant employed as a limited time appointee, but prohibits waiving such provisions with respect to an annuitant for more than: (1) 520 hours of service performed during the six months following the individual's annuity commencing date; (2) 1040 hours of service performed during any 12-month period; or (3) 6240 hours of service performed during the individual's lifetime.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-22
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: 2007-08-03
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S10932-10933)
action_date: 2007-08-03
text: Introduced in Senate