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Internet Consumer Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1077
Sponsor: Rep. Campbell, John [R-CA-48]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Electronic commerce
Electronic mail systems
Excise tax
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Intergovernmental tax relations
Internet
Local laws
Local taxation
Sales tax
Science, Technology, Communications
State laws
State taxation
Tax administration
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Internet Consumer Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Internet Tax Freedom Act to make permanent the ban on state and local taxation of Internet access and on multiple or discriminatory taxes on electronic commerce. 

Repeals provisions permitting states with Internet tax laws enacted prior to the ban on Internet taxes to continue enforcing such laws. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Professional Driver Background Check Efficiency Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1079
Sponsor: Rep. Carnahan, Russ [D-MO-3]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative fees
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Driver licenses
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Identification of criminals
Law
Transportation of hazardous substances
Truck drivers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Professional Driver Background Check Efficiency Act of 2007 - Amends federal transportation law to revise background records check requirements with respect to the issuance of a motor vehicle license for the transportation of hazardous materials to: (1) impose a fee of not more than $50 upon the applicant to cover the costs of the background check; and (2) authorize the costs for such background checks be reimbursed to the state.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Transportation Security and Infrastructure Protection.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Insurance Industry Competition Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1081
Sponsor: Rep. DeFazio, Peter A. [D-OR-4]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Antitrust law
Department of Justice
Federal Trade Commission
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Insurance
Insurance companies
Jurisdiction
Law
Restrictive trade practices

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Insurance Industry Competition Act of 2007 - Amends the McCarran-Ferguson Act to make the Federal Trade Commission Act, as it relates to areas other than unfair methods of competition, applicable to the business of insurance to the extent that such business is not regulated by state law.
 
Authorizes the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to issue joint statements of their antitrust enforcement policies regarding joint activities in the business of insurance.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services, 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: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services, 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: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services, 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: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Financial Services, 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: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Safe Babies Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1082
Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Case management
Child abuse
Child development
Child sexual abuse
Child welfare
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Family services
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Health
Infants
Judges
Labor and Employment
Law
Mental health services
Nonprofit organizations
Parent and child
Psychotherapy
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Safe Babies Act of 2007 - Amends the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to require the Administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention to award a grant to a national early childhood development organization to establish a National Court Teams Resource Center to: (1) promote the well-being of maltreated infants and toddlers and their families; (2) help prevent the recurrence of abuse and neglect of children; (3) promote timely reunification of families or other successful permanency outcomes for maltreated infants and toddlers in foster care; and (4) select, and provide assistance to, local Court Teams created to achieve those goals.

Sets forth organization selection criteria and application requirements, including assurance that at least one qualified judge will serve as Judicial Leader of each Court Team receiving assistance.

Requires the Center to: (1) develop materials to guide judges in the decision-making process regarding, and to train Court Teams in the appropriate care for, maltreated infants and toddlers; (2) develop a database to track the progress of and to evaluate such Teams; and (3) provide information to communities and courts seeking to adopt the Court Teams approach.
 
Requires Center assistance to each Team to include: (1) direction, coordination, oversight, training, and technical assistance; and (2) providing a Local Community Coordinator to serve as a resource of child development expertise.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Act establishing the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area in order to include Butler County, Pennsylvania, within the boundaries of that heritage area.

Bill: 110-hr-1083
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
Commemorations
Commerce
Historic sites
History
Iron and steel industry
Pennsylvania
Steel

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Amends the Steel Industry American Heritage Area Act of 1996 to add Butler County to the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-02-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Armed Forces Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1085
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Economics and Public Finance
Government trust funds
Income tax
Iraq compilation
Military pay
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Armed Forces Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from employment taxes combat zone compensation of members of the Armed Forces which is excludable from gross income. Appropriates amounts to cover Social Security trust fund deficits resulting from such tax exemption.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E371)
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Strengthening America's Military Families Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1086
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Families
Income tax
Iraq compilation
Married people
Military dependents
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Strengthening America's Military Families Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow spouses of members of the Armed Forces to exclude from their gross income an amount equal to that amount which such members are able to exclude as combat zone compensation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E371)
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Mercury Emissions Reduction Act

Bill: 110-hr-1087
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Air pollution control
Commerce
Electric power production
Electric utilities
Energy
Environmental Protection Agency
Government Operations and Politics
Industrial pollution
Law
Mercury

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Mercury Emissions Reduction Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promulgate standards for mercury emissions from electric utility steam generating units.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pregnant and Parenting Student Services Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1088
Sponsor: Rep. Kaptur, Marcy [D-OH-9]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Access to health care
Adoption
College administration
College teachers
Colleges
Congressional reporting requirements
Day care
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Families
Fathers
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Health counseling
Health insurance
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Infants
Marriage
Married people
Maternal health services
Mothers
Parent and child
Parents
Performance measurement
Pregnant women
School health programs
School personnel
Student housing
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Pregnant and Parenting Student Services Act of 2007 - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) pregnant college students should not have to make a choice between keeping their baby and staying in school; (2) the pilot program under this Act will help institutions of higher education to establish offices that will operate independent of federal funding within five years after enactment of this Act; and (3) amounts appropriated to carry out other federal programs should be reduced to offset the costs of this Act.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a pilot program to provide grants to encourage eligible institutions of higher education to establish and operate pregnant and parenting student services offices for pregnant students, parenting students, prospective parenting students anticipating a birth or adoption, and students who are placing or have placed a child for adoption.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Project BioShield Material Threats Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1089
Sponsor: Rep. Langevin, James R. [D-RI-2]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Emergency Management
Subjects: Antibiotics
Authorization
Biological warfare
Chemical warfare
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
Drugs
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency medicine
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Nuclear terrorism
Public health
Risk
Terrorism
Vaccines

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Project Bioshield Material Threats Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Homeland Security (the Secretary) to utilize existing risk assessments to assess current and emerging threats of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear agents and determine which of such agents present a material threat against the U.S. population sufficient to affect national security. Requires the Secretary to group such assessments to facilitate assessments by the Secretary of Health and Human Services on the availability and appropriateness of specific countermeasures to address more than one such agent or address adverse health consequences that are common to exposure to different agents. Requires the Secretary to complete assessments by December 31, 2007, for those agents known to the Secretary by the date of enactment of this Act that are capable of significantly affecting national security and to submit the results to Congress.

Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to reauthorize appropriations through FY2009 for the Secretary to carry out such terror threat assessments. Authorizes additional appropriations to enable the Secretary to meet the deadlines established under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Emerging Threats, Cybersecurity, and Science and Technology.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Homeland Security, 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: 2007-02-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E363-364)
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Save Our Shores Act

Bill: 110-hr-1091
Sponsor: Rep. Mack, Connie [R-FL-14]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Algal blooms
Aquatic ecology
Authorization
Coastal zone
Congressional reporting requirements
Ecological research
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental education
Environmental monitoring
Federal aid to research
Federal aid to water pollution control
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Marine ecology
Pollution measurement
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Science, Technology, Communications
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Save Our Shores Act - Amends the Harmful Algal Bloom and Hypoxia Research and Control Act of 1998 to extend the authorization of appropriations for research, education, and monitoring activities related to the prevention, reduction, and control of harmful algal blooms and hypoxia. 
 
Requires that all federal financial assistance for harmful algal bloom research be awarded on a competitive, peer reviewed basis. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
action_date: 2007-02-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the Committee on Science and Technology, 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: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Education Assistance Act

Bill: 110-hr-1092
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Conferences
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
History
Jewish holocaust (1939-1945)
Secondary education
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Teacher education
Teaching materials

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust Education Assistance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to make competitive grants to educational organizations to carry out educational programs about the Holocaust. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E366)
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1093
Sponsor: Rep. Meek, Kendrick B. [D-FL-17]
Introduced: 2007-02-15 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medical residents
Medicare
Osteopathy and osteopaths
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to increase, over five cost reporting periods, the Medicare caps on the total number of full-time equivalent residents in the field of allopathic or osteopathic medicine (graduate medical education (GME) positions) for states with a shortage of residents.

Requires the aggregate number of such increases for a state to be at least 15, but no more than the state resident cap increase.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-15
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: 2007-02-15
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: 2007-02-15
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: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Introduced in House