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Missisquoi and Trout Rivers Wild and Scenic River Study Act of 2008

Bill: 110-s-2093
Sponsor: Sen. Leahy, Patrick J. [D-VT]
Introduced: 2007-09-25 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
Vermont
Water Resources Development
Wild rivers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-25
text: 
Missisquoi and Trout Rivers Wild and Scenic River Study Act of 2007 - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a specified segment of the Missisquoi and Trout Rivers in Vermont for study for potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. 

action_date: 2008-09-16
text: 
Missisquoi and Trout Rivers Wild and Scenic River Study Act of 2008 - Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate a specified segment of the Missisquoi and Trout Rivers in Vermont for study for potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Authorizes appropriations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 978.
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-09-16
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. Without written report.
action_date: 2008-09-11
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2008-07-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-599.
action_date: 2007-09-25
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-09-25
text: Introduced in Senate
Increasing American Wages and Benefits Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2094
Sponsor: Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT]
Introduced: 2007-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative fees
Administrative procedure
Alien labor
Civil actions and liability
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Labor
Economics and Public Finance
Employee rights
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Labor and Employment
Law
Recruiting of employees
Temporary employment
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: 
Increasing American Wages and Benefits Act of 2007 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize: (1) the Secretary of Labor to enforce federal labor laws with respect to employers of H-2B nonagricultural temporary workers; and (2) a private right of action against such employers.
 
Specifies employer actions to be taken to recruit U.S. workers prior to filing for admission of H-2B workers.
 
Prohibits H-2B worker entry until the Secretary certifies that prevailing wages will be paid to such workers or to U.S. workers.
 
Sets forth H-2B and U.S. worker protections.
 
Directs the Secretary to establish an H-2B (employer) labor certification application fee. Establishes in the Treasury the H-2B Employment Certification Application Fee Account.
 
Indentured Servitude Abolition Act of 2007 - Requires foreign labor contractors and employers to inform foreign workers of specified employment terms and conditions at the time of recruitment. Requires that such information be provided in written form in English or in the language of the worker being recruited. 
 
Prohibits worker recruitment fees.
 
Sets forth protection and enforcement provisions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12143-12145)
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require country of origin labeling for processed food items.

Bill: 110-s-2095
Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2007-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Commerce
Food industry
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Imports
Labeling
Marketing of farm produce

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: 
Amends the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require country of origin labeling for processed food items. (Includes as a covered item under such Act.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Farmer Tax Fairness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2097
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Earnings
Economics and Public Finance
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Labor and Employment
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Self-employed
Social security taxes

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: 
Farmer Tax Fairness Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to revise the optional method of computing the net earnings of self-employed individuals for purposes of determining social security benefit eligibility. Replaces the numerical formula for determining benefit eligibility with an indexed calculation based on a lower limit (the amount required under the Social Security Act for a quarter of coverage) and an upper limit (150 percent of the lower limit).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12146)
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12145-12146)
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Northern Plains Heritage Area Act

Bill: 110-s-2098
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Cultural property
Great Plains
Historic sites
History
North Dakota

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: 
Northern Plains Heritage Area Act - Establishes in North Dakota the Northern Plains National Heritage Area. Directs the Northern Plains Heritage Foundation to prepare and submit a proposed management plan for the Area. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 660.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 110-308.
action_date: 2008-04-10
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Bingaman with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and an amendment to the title. With written report No. 110-308.
action_date: 2008-01-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute 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: 2007-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12147-12148)
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12147)
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Preserving Access to Laboratory Services Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2099
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2007-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Competitive bidding
Government Operations and Politics
Medical laboratories
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: 
Preserving Access to Laboratory Services Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to repeal the mandate for a Medicare Competitive Bidding Demonstration Project for Clinical Laboratory Services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Emergency Meth Lab Cleanup Funding Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2100
Sponsor: Sen. Johnson, Tim [D-SD]
Introduced: 2007-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Consultants
Criminal justice information
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to law enforcement
Forfeiture
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Hazardous wastes
Indian law enforcement
Informers
Laboratories
Landowners
Methamphetamine
Minorities
Native Americans

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: 
Federal Emergency Meth Lab Cleanup Funding Act of 2007- Makes funding available from the Department of the Treasury Forfeiture Fund for payment to designated State, local, or tribal law enforcement, environmental, or health entities for experts and consultants needed to clean up areas formerly used as methamphetamine laboratories.

Allows payment of up to 90% of cleanup costs on private property if the property owner: (1) did not know of the existence or operation of the methamphetamine laboratory before law enforcement action to close it; or (2) notified law enforcement not later than 24 hours after discovering the existence of such laboratory.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Savings Program Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2101
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Coinsurance
Collection of accounts
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Estates (Law)
Finance and Financial Sector
Governmental investigations
Law
Managed care
Medicaid
Medicare
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: 
Medicare Savings Program Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to the Qualified Medicare Beneficiaries (QMB) and Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiaries (SLMB) programs (Medicare Savings Program) to increase the income eligibility levels for: (1) QMBs to 135% of the federal poverty level (FPL); and (2) SLMBs to 150% of the FPL. Eliminates the application of estate recovery for Medicare Savings Program beneficiaries. Modifies the asset tests for QMBs and SLMBs. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to provide for expedited enrollment under the Medicare Savings Program through Social Security offices.
 
Provides for treatment of QMBs, SLMBs, and other dual eligibles as Medicare beneficiaries.

Amends SSA title XIX with respect to Medicaid treatment of certain Medicare providers.

Directs the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services to examine and report on whether providers have attempted to make QMBs liable for deductibles, coinsurance, and co-payments in violation of applicable law. Requires the Secretary to report an enforcement plan of action to Congress regarding any QMBs that have been held so liable in violation of law.

Requires states to provide medical assistance to dual eligibles in MedicareAdvantage (MA) plans.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12149-12153)
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12148-12149)
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Ending the Medicare Disability Waiting Period Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2102
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Critically ill
Disabled
Hospital care
Labor and Employment
Medical research
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Preventive medicine
Railroad retirement plans
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: 
Ending the Medicare Disability Waiting Period Act of 2007 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) phase out the waiting period for disabled individuals to become eligible for benefits under SSA title XVIII (Medicare); and (2) eliminate the waiting period for individuals with life-threatening conditions to become eligible for such benefits. 
 
Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to request the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences to study the range of disability conditions that can be delayed or prevented if individuals receive access to health care services and coverage before a condition reaches disability levels.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12154-12155)
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12153-12154)
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
Medicare Independent Living Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2103
Sponsor: Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM]
Introduced: 2007-09-26 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Disabled
Home care services
Long-term care
Medical supplies
Medicare
Self-help devices for the disabled
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: 
Medicare Independent Living Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to eliminate the in-the-home restriction for Medicare coverage of mobility devices for individuals with expected long-term needs. Deems such devices to be durable medical equipment (DME) if they are used in customary settings for the purpose of normal domestic, vocational, or community activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S12155)
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12155, S12155-12156)
action_date: 2007-09-26
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to clarify the temporary suspension of duty for certain DVD readers and writers.

Bill: 110-s-2104
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-27
text: 
Amends the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States to provide for the duty-free treatment of certain DVD camcorder readers and writers. Provides for retroactive liquidation or reliquidation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Health Care Board Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2105
Sponsor: Sen. Hagel, Chuck [R-NE]
Introduced: 2007-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Education
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Higher education
Law
Medical economics
Medical education
Medical fees
Medical malpractice
Medical records
Quality of care
Scholarships
Standards
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-27
text: 
Federal Health Care Board Act of 2007 - Establishes the Federal Health Care Board as an independent agency in the executive branch.

Requires the Board to: (1) ensure that Americans have access to health insurance and are provided certain basic facts about health care services prior to receiving care; (2) ensure that providers are delivering safe, evidence-based, high quality care and are transparent about pricing through disclosure of actual costs; (3) demand transparency for disclosure of actual costs and pricing from providers and payers through an information clearinghouse; (4) establish a national standard for a basic health insurance plan (including a basic minimum policy and the regional cost for such policy), a national protocol and standard for secure, universal, and individual electronic medical records, a national standard for public health services (including safety net providers), loan forgiveness and scholarship programs for health care providers who serve in underserved areas, and model dispute resolution procedures for malpractice claims that states may adopt; and (5) monitor progress toward those objectives.

Directs the Board's Board of Governors to establish 12 regions of the United States. Establishes in each region a Regional Board, based in a major city, to provide the Board of Governors with considerations that are relevant to their region's population.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 570 Broadway in Bayonne, New Jersey, as the "Dennis P. Collins Post Office Building".

Bill: 110-s-2107
Sponsor: Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Mayors
Names
New Jersey
Postal facilities

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-27
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 570 Broadway in Bayonne, New Jersey, as the "Dennis P. Collins Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-04
text: Indefinitely postponed by Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S14748)
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 490.
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Reported by Senator Lieberman without amendment. Without written report.
action_date: 2007-11-14
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-10-19
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
action_date: 2007-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2007-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
Emergency Contraception Education Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-2108
Sponsor: Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA]
Introduced: 2007-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer organizations
Contraceptives
Education
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Higher education
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-27
text: 
Emergency Contraception Education Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to develop and disseminate to the public information on emergency contraception, including, at a minimum, a description of emergency contraception and an explanation of the use, safety, efficacy, and availability of such contraception.

Requires that the Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), to develop and disseminate to health care providers, including pharmacists, information on emergency contraception that includes, at a minimum: (1) information describing the use, safety, efficacy, and availability of emergency contraception; (2) a recommendation regarding its use in appropriate cases; and (3) information explaining how to obtain copies of information from the CDC.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate
California Desert and Mountain Heritage Act

Bill: 110-s-2109
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-09-27 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
California
Commemorations
Land use
Minorities
Mountains
National forests
National monuments
National parks
Native Americans
Religion
Water Resources Development
Wild rivers
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-09-27
text: 
California Desert and Mountain Heritage Act - Designates as wilderness: (1) certain Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in the Cleveland National Forest, to be part of the Agua Tibia Wilderness; (2) specified lands in the San Bernardino National Forest to be known as the Cahuilla Mountain Wilderness and the South Fork San Jacinto Wilderness and certain BLM land in such Forest as part of the Santa Rosa Wilderness; (3) certain BLM land in Riverside County, California, to be known as the Beauty Mountain Wilderness; (4) certain land in Joshua Tree National Park, to be part of the Joshua Tree Wilderness; (5) certain BLM land in the county as part of the Orocopia Mountains Wilderness; (6) certain BLM land in the county as part of the Palen/McCoy Wilderness; (7) certain BLM land in the county to be known as the Pinto Mountains Wilderness; and (8) certain BLM land in the county as part of the Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness. 
 
Designates certain lands in the Joshua Tree National Park as potential wilderness. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to manage such land as wilderness until it is incorporated into the Joshua Tree Wilderness (effective when the Secretary publishes notice that all uses of the land prohibited by the Wilderness Act have ceased or that sufficient inholdings have been acquired to establish a manageable wilderness unit). 
 
Provides for access to the Cahuilla Mountain Wilderness by Indian tribes for traditional cultural and religious purposes.
 
Amends the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate as wild, scenic, or recreational rivers specified segments of the North Fork San Jacinto River, Fuller Mill Creek, Palm Canyon Creek, and Bautista Creek in California. 
 
Amends the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument Act of 2000 to include additional lands within the boundaries of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-15
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-485.
action_date: 2007-09-27
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-09-27
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S12290)
action_date: 2007-09-27
text: Introduced in Senate