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To provide for the conveyance of certain Bureau of Land Management land in the State of Nevada to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-6223
Sponsor: Rep. Heller, Dean [R-NV-2]
Introduced: 2008-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Land transfers
Nevada
Parking facilities
Sports and Recreation
Sports facilities
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: 
Provides for the conveyance of certain Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in Nevada to the Nevada Speedway, LLC.
 
Requires: (1) Nevada Speedway, LLC, to pay to the Secretary of the Interior the appraised value of such land; and (2) any costs of the conveyance to be paid by Nevada Speedway, LLC. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Pilot College Work Study Programs for Veterans Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6224
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth Sandlin, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2008-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Education
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Student employment
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' education
Veterans' employment

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: 
Pilot College Work Study Programs for Veterans Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a five-year pilot project to test the feasibility and advisability of expanding the scope of qualifying veterans' work-study activities, including positions available on site at educational institutions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Forwarded by Subcommittee to Full Committee by Voice Vote .
action_date: 2008-06-26
text: Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2008-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 300 East 3rd Street in Jamestown, New York, as the "Stan Lundine Post Office Building".

Bill: 110-hr-6226
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-27]
Introduced: 2008-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congress
Congressional tributes
Ex-Members of Congress
Government Operations and Politics
House of Representatives
Mayors
Names
New York State
Postal facilities
State officials

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 300 East 3rd Street in Jamestown, New York, as the "Stan Lundine Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-10
text: Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs referred to Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security.
action_date: 2008-07-23
text: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
action_date: 2008-07-22
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2008-07-22
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H6785)
action_date: 2008-07-22
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H6785)
action_date: 2008-07-22
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 6226.
action_date: 2008-07-22
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H6785-6786)
action_date: 2008-07-22
text: Mr. Higgins moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Ordered to be Reported by Voice Vote.
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Introduced in House
To exempt longstanding nonfunctionally-integrated supporting organizations from certain provisions of the Pension Protection Act of 2006.

Bill: 110-hr-6227
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, John [D-GA-5]
Introduced: 2008-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Charities
Income tax
Social Welfare
Tax-exempt organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code and the Pension Protection Act of 2006 to exempt certain long-standing, nonfunctionally-integrated fully-funded type III supporting organizations from requirements that: (1) impose a tax on their excess business holdings; and (2) oblige such organizations to make certain percentage payouts of income or assets to organizations they support (supported organizations).
 
Specifies such an exempt long-standing, nonfunctionally-integrated fully-funded type III supporting organization as one: (1) that was established before January 1, 1970, but has not accepted any substantial contributions after December 31, 1970; (2) none of whose donors was alive on August 17, 2006; and (3) none of whose organization managers is a family member of any donor.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Ban Poisonous Additives Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6228
Sponsor: Rep. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA-7]
Introduced: 2008-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Beverage containers
Chemicals
Commerce
Environmental Protection
Food safety
Organic compounds
Packaging

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: 
Ban Poisonous Additives Act of 2008 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem to be adulterated a food in a container that is composed, in whole or in part, of bisphenol A or that can release bisphenol A into food. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Credit Rating Agency Transparency and Disclosure Act

Bill: 110-hr-6230
Sponsor: Rep. McHenry, Patrick T. [R-NC-10]
Introduced: 2008-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Credit
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Independent regulatory commissions
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Law
Loan defaults
Risk
Securities and Exchange Commission
Securities fraud
Securities industry
Securities regulation
Surety and fidelity

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: 
Credit Rating Agency Transparency and Disclosure Act - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to instruct the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to promulgate rules that: (1) require nationally recognized statistical rating organizations (NRSROs), with respect to their determination of credit ratings for structured securities, to disclose the information they require from originators, issuers, and underwriters regarding the collateral underlying such securities; (2) establish procedures to disseminate information about processes used by such originators, issuers, and underwriters to assess the accuracy and integrity of their data and fraud detection; and (3) require each NRSRO to maintain on a publicly accessible Internet site the historical default rates of all classes of financial products it has rated.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Introduced in House
Fuel Freedom Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6231
Sponsor: Rep. Tancredo, Thomas G. [R-CO-6]
Introduced: 2008-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Alternative energy sources
Automobile industry
Automobiles
Commerce
Electric vehicles
Fines (Penalties)
Law
Natural gas vehicles
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: 
Fuel Freedom Act of 2008 - Requires each automobile manufactured after model year 2018 to be an alternative fueled automobile.
 
Makes a manufacturer liable for a civil penalty of up to $10,000 for each automobile manufactured in violation of this requirement.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Richard M. Barlow of Bozeman, Montana.

Bill: 110-hr-6232
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2008-06-10 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Claims
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Provides for the relief of Richard M. Barlow of Bozeman, Montana.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-10
text: Introduced in House
To reinstate the Interim Management Strategy governing off-road vehicle use in the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina, pending the issuance of a final rule for off-road vehicle use by the National Park Service.

Bill: 110-hr-6233
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2008-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Administrative procedure
All terrain vehicles
Animals
Consent decrees
Department of the Interior
Endangered species
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
National seashores
North Carolina
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: 
Requires that the Cape Hatteras National Seashore, North Carolina, be managed in accordance with the Interim Protected Species Management Strategy/Environmental Assessment issued by the National Park Service (NPS) until the NPS issues a special regulation and long-term off-road vehicle management plan for the use of that seashore by the public.
 
Invalidates the consent decree filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina regarding off-road vehicle use at that seashore.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-11
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2008-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2008-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2008-06-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2008-06-11
text: Referred to the Committee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2008-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Bridge Life Extension Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6234
Sponsor: Rep. Conaway, K. Michael [R-TX-11]
Introduced: 2008-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Bridges
Corrosion
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to transportation
Highway finance
Highway maintenance
Infrastructure
Road construction

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: 
Bridge Life Extension Act of 2008 - Allows the Secretary of Transportation to approve federal-aid highway funding for states for bridge reconstruction, replacement, or rehabilitation projects only if the state submits, and the Secretary approves, a corrosion mitigation and prevention plan.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-12
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Introduced in House
All-American Flag Act

Bill: 110-hr-6235
Sponsor: Rep. Braley, Bruce L. [D-IA-1]
Introduced: 2008-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Buy American
Commemorations
Flags
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government procurement

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: 
 All-American Flag Act - Requires any flags of the United States acquired for use by the federal government to be entirely manufactured in the United States, from articles, materials, or supplies entirely grown, produced, or manufactured in the United States.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management, Organization, and Procurement.
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Veterans Disability Benefits Claims Modernization Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6236
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2008-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Claims
Death
Department of Veterans Affairs
Disability evaluation
Disabled
Employee training
Employment tests
Federal advisory bodies
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Information technology
Labor and Employment
Law
Parties to actions
Performance measurement
Productivity in government
Science, Technology, Communications
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' disability compensation
Veterans' pensions

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: 
Veterans Disability Benefits Claims Modernization Act of 2008 - Requires the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to conduct a study on adjusting the schedule for rating veterans' disabilities in order to base such schedule on current standards, practices, and codes in common use by the medical, mental health, and disability professions.
 
Establishes in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) the Advisory Committee on Disability Compensation to consult with and advise the Secretary with respect to the maintenance and periodic readjustment of the above schedule.
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct a study on the: (1) employee work credit system of the VA's Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA), which is used to measure the work production of VBA employees; and (2) VBA work management system, with the goal of improving accountability, quality, and accuracy and reducing the time for processing claims.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) develop a certification examination for VBA employees and managers responsible for processing benefits claims; and (2) evaluate the training of VBA employees responsible for matters relating to veterans' compensation or pension benefits.
 
Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the use of information technology at the VBA, including the technology known as &quot;VistA.&quot;
 
Allows a claim beneficiary to be substituted as a claimant in the case of the death of a veteran claimant while a claim is awaiting adjudication or appeal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Tax Relief for Long-Term Care Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6237
Sponsor: Rep. Courtney, Joe [D-CT-2]
Introduced: 2008-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Caregivers
Disabled
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Income tax
Insurance premiums
Long-term care insurance
Medical economics
Social Welfare
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: 
Tax Relief for Long-Term Care Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for long-term care insurance premiums and for care provided by a caregiver to a family member or dependent with long-term care needs who resides with such caregiver. Phases in a maximum credit amount of $3,000 between 2009 and 2013. Reduces such credit amount for a taxpayer whose adjusted gross income exceeds $75,000 ($150,000 in the case of a joint return).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the establishment of an interagency working group to conduct a study to identify the factors that affect the pricing of crude oil and refined petroleum products, and to make recommendations on appropriate coordination of oversight and regulation.

Bill: 110-hr-6238
Sponsor: Rep. Dingell, John D. [D-MI-15]
Introduced: 2008-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Energy prices
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government regulation
Governmental investigations
Petroleum
Petroleum industry

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: 
Directs the Secretary of Energy to establish an interagency working group to study and report to specified congressional committees on: (1) factors that affect the pricing of crude oil and refined petroleum products; and (2) the roles, missions, and structures of relevant federal agencies, interagency coordination, and the gaps which need to be filled for the federal government to effectively oversee and regulate crude oil and refined petroleum product markets. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Introduced in House
NCLB Recess Until Reauthorization Act

Bill: 110-hr-6239
Sponsor: Rep. Graves, Sam [R-MO-6]
Introduced: 2008-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Academic performance
Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Tariff

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: 
NCLB Recess Until Reauthorization Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to suspend, during the 2008-2009 school year, new identifications of schools or local educational agencies as needing: (1) improvement, after they fail to make adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic performance standards for two consecutive years; (2) corrective action, after they fail to make AYP for an additional two years after being identified as needing improvement; or (3) restructuring, after they fail to make AYP after a year of corrective action.
 
Lifts such suspension on the earlier of the last day of the 2008-2009 school year or the authorization of FY2009 appropriations for title I (Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged) of the Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Weekend Voting Act

Bill: 110-hr-6240
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2008-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Congress
Congressional elections
Election Day
Presidential elections
Voting

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: 
Weekend Voting Act - Amends the Revised Statutes with respect to the time of election to establish the first Saturday and Sunday after the first Friday in November, in every even numbered year, as the days for the election, in each state and territory, of Delegates to, or Members of, Congress.

Amends federal law with respect to presidential elections and vacancies to establish the first Saturday and Sunday after the first Friday in November, in every fourth year, as the days for the election of the President and Vice President of the United States.
 
Amends such federal laws to establish the same polling place hours in the United States for both congressional and presidential elections, namely from 10:00 a.m. EST on Saturday till 6:00 p.m. EST on Sunday, with polls allowed to close between the hours of 10:00 p.m. local time on Saturday and 6:00 a.m. local time on Sunday as provided by the law of the state in which the polling place is located.
 
Declares the sense of Congress that state and local election officials and the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) should work together to develop plans to ensure an effective transition to weekend voting in federal elections.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Introduced in House
Restorative and Enhanced Vision Access for Medicare Patients (REVAMP) Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6241
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2008-06-11 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Computer software
Eye care
Medical technology
Medicare
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: 
Restorative and Enhanced Vision Access for Medicare Patients (REVAMP) Act of 2008 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to cover vision restoration therapy devices and associated software used in the patient's home to treat impaired visual function as durable medical equipment (DME).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-06-11
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: 2008-06-11
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: 2008-06-11
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: 2008-06-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-11
text: Introduced in House