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Species Rescue Act

Bill: 110-hr-1917
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Animals
Dams
Department of the Interior
Emergency Management
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Flood control
Flood damage prevention
Government Operations and Politics
Habitat conservation
Infrastructure
Law
Maintenance and repair
Relocation
Water Resources Development
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Species Rescue Act - Amends the Endangered Species Act of 1973 to provide for expedited consultation and conferencing (within 60 days of the date on which initiated) with respect to impacts on endangered or threatened species of federal agency flood control actions. 
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior or of Commerce, as appropriate, acting through the Fish and Wildlife Service, any other federal land management agency, the National Marine Fisheries Service, or a state conservation agency, to relocate from the flood control levee: (1) any threatened or endangered species of plant or animal that would be taken in the course of the agency action; and (2) any plant or other natural material that the Secretary considers to be suitable habitat, or a component of suitable habitat, for such species and that the Secretary determines would be damaged, destroyed, or removed in the course of the action. Bars the Secretary from requiring a non-federal person (other than a state conservation agency) to carry out any measures to minimize or mitigate impacts of agency flood control actions.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Forest Service use and occupancy permit program to restore the authority of the Secretary of Agriculture to utilize the special use permit fees collected by the Secretary in connection with the establishment and operation of marinas in units of the National Forest System derived from the public domain, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-1918
Sponsor: Rep. Herger, Wally [R-CA-2]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative fees
Animals
Arts, Culture, Religion
Boats and boating
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Environmental law enforcement
Fishing
Government Operations and Politics
Habitat conservation
Harbors
Hunting
Law
Licenses
Maintenance and repair
National forests
Outdoor recreation
Photography
Restoration ecology
Signs and signboards
Sports and Recreation
Tourism
User charges

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Amends the Forest Service use and occupancy permit program to require amounts collected in connection with the issuance of a special use permit for a marina at a unit of the National Forest System (NFS) derived from the public domain to be deposited in an existing special account in the Treasury established for the Secretary of Agriculture for specified recreation management purposes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, 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: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1919
Sponsor: Rep. Hinchey, Maurice D. [D-NY-22]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Arid regions
Commemorations
Energy
Environmental Protection
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Grazing
Islands
Land transfers
Landforms
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mineral reserves
Mines and mineral resources
Mining leases
Mountains
National monuments
Natural monuments
Nature conservation
Roads and highways
Transportation and Public Works
Utah
Water Resources Development
Water rights
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2007 - Designates specified lands in the following areas of Utah as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: (1) Great Basin; (2) Zion and Mojave Desert; (3) the Grand Staircase-Escalante; (4) Moab-La Sal Canyons; (5) Henry Mountains; (6) Glen Canyon; (7) San Juan-Anasazi; (8) Canyonlands Basin; (9) San Rafael Swell; and (10) Book Cliffs and Uinta Basin. 
Sets forth administrative provisions regarding: (1) filing by the Secretary of the Interior of a map and a legal description of each designated wilderness area with appropriate congressional committees; (2) the exchange of state-owned lands within such areas; (3) federal reservation of water rights; (4) measurement of setbacks for roads with wilderness; (5) authorized livestock grazing; and (6) withdrawal of such lands from disposition under certain public land laws.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
Health Care for Hybrids Act

Bill: 110-hr-1920
Sponsor: Rep. Inslee, Jay [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Accounting
Alternative energy sources
Automobile industry
Commerce
Commercialization
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer discounts
Corporation taxes
Department of Energy
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Transportation
Department of the Treasury
Diesel motor
Electric vehicles
Employee health benefits
Energy efficiency
Executive reorganization
Finance and Financial Sector
Fuel cells
Fuel consumption
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Income tax
Interest
Labor and Employment
Loans
Natural gas vehicles
Profit
Research and development
Retiree health benefits
Science, Technology, Communications
Subsidies
Tax deductions
Tax evasion
Tax penalties
Taxation
Transportation and Public Works
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Health Care for Hybrids Act - Requires the Secretaries of Energy, Health and Human Services, Transportation, and the Treasury to establish a task force to create a program to reimburse certain domestic automobile manufacturers for a portion (up to 10%) of the annual health care coverage costs for their retired employees. Requires such manufacturers to invest at least 50% of their health care cost savings in petroleum fuel reduction technologies, including alternative or flexible fuel vehicles and hybrids, and in the retraining of workers and retooling of manufacturing plants. Terminates such program on December 31, 2017. 

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) define economic substance for purposes of evaluating tax shelter transactions; (2) impose penalties for understatements of tax liability resulting from transactions lacking in economic substance; and (3) deny a tax deduction for interest assessed on underpayments of tax resulting from transactions lacking in economic substance. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act

Bill: 110-hr-1921
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional Record
Congressional reporting requirements
Conscientious objectors
Defense budgets
Economics and Public Finance
Estate tax
Gift tax
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Income tax
Peace
Religion
Religious liberty
Right of privacy
Tax administration
Tax returns
War and religion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to establish in the Treasury the Religious Freedom Peace Tax Fund for the deposit of income, gift, and estate taxes paid by or on behalf of taxpayers: (1) who are designated conscientious objectors opposed to participation in war in any form based upon their deeply held moral, ethical, or religious beliefs or training (within the meaning of the Military Selective Service Act); and (2) who have certified their beliefs in writing to the Secretary.
Requires that: (1) amounts deposited in the Fund be allocated annually to any appropriation not for a military purpose; (2) the Secretary report to the House and Senate Appropriations Committees on the total amount transferred into the Fund during the preceding fiscal year and the purposes for which such amount was allocated; and (3) the privacy of individuals using the Fund be protected. 
Expresses the sense of Congress that any revenue increase resulting from the creation of the Fund be allocated in a manner consistent with its purposes.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
American Marriage Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1923
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Kevin [R-CA-22]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Minimum tax
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
American Marriage Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the exemption amount for the alternative minimum tax on individuals and to provide for an annual inflation adjustment to such increased amount after 2006.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide credit rate parity for all renewable resources under the electricity production credit.

Bill: 110-hr-1924
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Alternative energy sources
Biomass energy
Coal
Electric power production
Energy
Environmental Protection
Income tax
Indian lands
Irrigation
Minorities
Municipal solid waste
Refuse as fuel
Tax credits
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to eliminate after 2006 the reduction in the rate of the tax credit for electricity produced from open-loop biomass, small irrigation power, landfill gas, trash combustion, and hydropower facilities (thus allowing the same credit rate for all renewable resource facilities).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
To direct the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a separate Veterans Integrated Service Network for the Gulf Coast region of the United States.

Bill: 110-hr-1925
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, Jeff [R-FL-1]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Alabama
Florida
Mississippi
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish a separate Veterans Affairs Service Network for the Gulf Coast region of the United States, which shall include specified counties in Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-14
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
Colon Cancer Screen for Life Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1926
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Coinsurance
Colon cancer
Finance and Financial Sector
Hospital care
Medical fees
Medical screening
Medical tests
Medicare
Physicians
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Colon Cancer Screen for Life Act of 2007- Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to the use of and reimbursement for colorectal cancer screening tests covered under the Medicare program under title XVIII of the Social Security Act (SSA).
 
Amends SSA title XVIII to: (1) increase Medicare part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) reimbursement for colorectal cancer screening and diagnostic tests; and (2) cover an outpatient office visit or consultation for the purpose of beneficiary education before a colorectal cancer screening test consisting of a colonoscopy, or in conjunction with the beneficiary's decision to obtain such a screening, regardless of whether the screening is medically indicated with respect to the beneficiary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-04-18
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: 2007-04-18
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: 2007-04-18
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: 2007-04-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E771)
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
To repeal the requirement for reduction of survivor annuities under the Survivor Benefit Plan by veterans dependency and indemnity compensation, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-1927
Sponsor: Rep. Ortiz, Solomon P. [D-TX-27]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Annuities
Collection of accounts
Families
Labor and Employment
Military dependents
Military pensions
Survivors' benefits
Veterans' pensions
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Repeals certain provisions which require the offset of amounts paid in dependency and indemnity compensation from Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) annuities for the surviving spouses of former military personnel who are entitled to military retired pay or would be entitled to such pay except for being under 60 years of age.
 
Prohibits recoupment by the Secretary of Defense of certain amounts previously paid to SBP recipients in the form of a retired pay refund.
 
Repeals the optional authority of (and instead requires) the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay an annuity to a member's dependent children when there is no eligible surviving spouse. Directs the Secretary concerned to restore annuity eligibility to a surviving spouse who earlier agreed to transfer such eligibility to a surviving child or children of a member.
 
Changes to October 1, 2007 (previously October 1, 2008) the effective date for paid-up coverage provisions under the SBP and the Retired Serviceman's Family Protection Plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
To provide for a report by the National Academy of Sciences on underrepresentation of certain groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.

Bill: 110-hr-1928
Sponsor: Rep. Reyes, Silvestre [D-TX-16]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
Education
Engineering
Engineers
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Governmental investigations
Higher education
Infrastructure
International competitiveness
Labor and Employment
Mathematics
Minorities
Minority education
Minority employment
Scientists
Technological innovations
Women
Women's education
Women's employment

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Directs the National Science Foundation to enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences for a report: (1) concerning the effect of increasing the number of members of underrepresented groups, such as women and underrepresented minorities, in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields would have on achieving a national strategic priority of expanding the pipeline of individuals entering such fields to support innovation and competitiveness; and (2) that identifies strategies for bringing more women and underrepresented minorities into those fields.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
Save the Family Farm and Ranch Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1929
Sponsor: Rep. Salazar, John T. [D-CO-3]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
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: 2007-04-18
text: 
Save the Family Farm and Ranch Act of 2007 - 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: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
Catherine Skivers Currency for All Act

Bill: 110-hr-1931
Sponsor: Rep. Stark, Fortney Pete [D-CA-13]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Blind
Disabled
Money
Self-help devices for the disabled

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: 
Catherine Skivers Currency for All Act - Amends the Federal Reserve Act to require each federal reserve note whose denomination is $50 or less to be trimmed in a prescribed manner so as to make the denomination recognizable to an individual who is blind.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E775)
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
Prompt Payment Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1934
Sponsor: Rep. Wynn, Albert Russell [D-MD-4]
Introduced: 2007-04-18 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commerce
Contracts
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Small business
Subcontractors

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Prompt Payment Improvement Act of 2007 - Requires: (1) the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to set forth in writing the prompt payment policy applicable to subcontractors under federal contracts; and (2) the head of each federal agency to provide a copy of such policy to each contractor and to require each contractor to provide a copy to each subcontractor. 
Directs each agency head to require contractors to include in each subcontract a clause containing: (1) the requirements and penalties relating to the timely payment obligations of the government and prime contractors; (2) the name and number of a senior employee with authority to resolve progress payment questions; and (3) the obligations of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization in assisting small business contractors and subcontractors in receiving prompt payments.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-04-18
text: Introduced in House