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Caring for an Aging America Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6337
Sponsor: Rep. Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2008-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Education
Federal advisory bodies
Geriatrics
Gerontology
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Home care services
Long-term care
Medical education
Nurse practitioners
Nurses
Nursing
Nursing education
Physicians
Physicians' assistants
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Social work
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: 
Caring for an Aging America Act of 2008 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) establish a Geriatric and Gerontology Loan Repayment Program to enter into contracts with physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, psychologists, and social workers trained in geriatrics or gerontology to pay educational loans in exchange for providing full-time clinical practice and service to older adults; and (2) establish the National Advisory Council on the Geriatric and Gerontology Loan Repayment Program.

Requires the Secretary to ensure that individuals eligible for the nurse loan repayment program include registered nurses who complete specialty training in geriatrics or gerontology and who elect to provide nursing services to older adults in home and long-term care settings.

Authorizes the Secretary to award nursing education grants and enter into contracts for programs that focus on specialty training in providing long-term care services for nursing personnel who provide services in home and long-term care settings.

Requires the Secretary to establish a Health and Long-Term Care Workforce Advisory Panel to conduct a research project to identify incentives for recruitment and retention of clinicians and providers who agree to serve vulnerable older adults in geriatric and long-term care settings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Energy Markets Anti-Manipulation and Integrity Restoration Act

Bill: 110-hr-6341
Sponsor: Rep. Van Hollen, Chris [D-MD-8]
Introduced: 2008-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Affiliated corporations
Coal
Commerce
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Derivative securities
Diesel motor
Electricity
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Futures trading
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Jurisdiction
Law
Natural gas
Petroleum
Propane
Securities regulation
Swaps (Finance)
Transportation and Public Works
Uranium

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: 
Energy Markets Anti-Manipulation and Integrity Restoration Act - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to give the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) jurisdiction over energy derivatives traded on or through a board of trade, exchange, or market, either domestic or foreign.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1305)
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in House
To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 440 2nd Avenue in Gallipolis, Ohio, as the "Bob Evans Post Office Building".

Bill: 110-hr-6342
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Charles A. [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2008-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Congressional tributes
Entrepreneurs
Government Operations and Politics
Names
Ohio
Postal facilities
Restaurants

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Designates the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 440 2nd Avenue in Gallipolis, Ohio, as the "Bob Evans Post Office Building."

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Jose de Jesus Ibarra, Monica Ibarra Rodriguez, and Cristina Gamez.

Bill: 110-hr-6343
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2008-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Provides for the relief of Jose de Jesus Ibarra, Monica Ibarra Rodriguez, and Cristina Gamez.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in House
HOPE VI Amendment Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6347
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-3]
Introduced: 2008-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Appropriations
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Explosions
Federal aid to housing
Finance and Financial Sector
Fires
Floods
Housing authorities
Housing subsidies
Loan defaults
Mortgages
Public housing
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: 
HOPE VI Amendment Act of 2008 - Continues through September 30, 2009, the availability of amounts appropriated for FY2002 for grants to certain public housing agencies for public housing demolition, site revitalization, replacement housing, and tenant-based assistance (HOPE VI grants).
 
Makes eligible for such continued grant availability any public housing agencies that since October 1, 2002, have suffered project delays, and cost increases due to shortages in labor and materials, as a result of natural catastrophes, fire, flood, explosion, or the 2007-2008 subprime mortgage crisis.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Eminent Domain Tax Relief Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6348
Sponsor: Rep. Gingrey, Phil [R-GA-11]
Introduced: 2008-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Eminent domain
Income tax
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Real property
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: 
Eminent Domain Tax Relief Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income gain from the conversion of property by reason of eminent domain.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Criminal History Background Checks Pilot Extension Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6350
Sponsor: Rep. Schiff, Adam B. [D-CA-29]
Introduced: 2008-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Child safety
Criminal justice information
Day care
Employee selection
Families
Fingerprints
Government Operations and Politics
Identification of criminals
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare
Volunteer workers
Youth services

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: 
Criminal History Background Checks Pilot Extension Act of 2008 - Amends the PROTECT Act to extend by six months the Child Safety Pilot Program (allowing certain volunteer organizations to obtain national and state criminal history background checks on their volunteers).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Introduced in House
21st Century Rural Health Care Act

Bill: 110-hr-6351
Sponsor: Rep. Space, Zachary T. [D-OH-18]
Introduced: 2008-06-23 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Authorization
Child health
Community health services
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Families
Family medicine
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Medical education
Medical residents
Medicare
Obstetrics
Public health personnel
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: 
21st Century Rural Health Care Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize appropriations for the National Health Service Corps for FY2009-FY2013.

Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to define &quot;accredited training program with an integrated rural track&quot; to mean an accredited medical residency training program that is located in an urban area which offers a curriculum for family practice for all residents in the program and that meets certain requirements, including: (1) four month-long rotations in rural public health and community health settings; and (2) specified minimum training in obstetrics, pediatrics, and emergency medicine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-06-23
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: 2008-06-23
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: 2008-06-23
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: 2008-06-23
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Introduced in House
Communities Committed to College Tax Credit Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6352
Sponsor: Rep. Fattah, Chaka [D-PA-2]
Introduced: 2008-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Education
Higher education
Income tax
Law
Scholarships
Tax credits
Trusts and trustees
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: 
Communities Committed to College Tax Credit Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 50% of any contribution to a tax-exempt scholarship funding trust established to provide scholarships for individuals with demonstrated financial need to attend institutions of higher education. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Children and Family Food Relief Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6354
Sponsor: Rep. Issa, Darrell E. [R-CA-49]
Introduced: 2008-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food stamps
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: 
Children and Family Food Relief Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to increase the benefits provided under the supplemental nutrition assistance program by the earlier of the date of the enactment of this Act or October 1, 2008. (Current law requires that such adjustment be made on October 1, 2008.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Air Service Improvement Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6355
Sponsor: Rep. Oberstar, James L. [D-MN-8]
Introduced: 2008-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Airline passenger traffic
Airlines
Airports
Animals
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer complaints
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Department of Transportation
Electronic government information
Employee-management relations in government
Environmental Protection
Europe
European Union
Federal advisory bodies
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Insect control
Inspectors general
Law
Mediation
Personnel management
Pesticides
Science, Technology, Communications
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: 
Air Service Improvement Act of 2008 - Requires the Secretary of Transportation to collect, and publish on the Department of Transportation (DOT) website, data regarding cancelled and diverted flights of air carriers.
 
Requires certain air carriers and hub airport operators to submit for the Secretary's approval emergency contingency plans for flight delays.
 
Requires the Secretary to establish a consumer complaints hotline telephone number.
 
Prohibits flight ticket sales on aircraft on which a insecticide has been applied within the last 60 days or on which an insecticide is planned to be used in the aircraft while passengers are on board, unless passengers are informed before buying a ticket.
 
 
Requires the Inspector General of DOT to review air carrier flight delays, cancellations, and associated causes to update its 2000 report on such matters.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study and report to Congress on European Union rules for passenger rights.
 
Establishes an advisory committee for aviation consumer protection.
 
Sets forth requirements regarding: (1) denied boarding compensation; and (2) expansion of DOT airline consumer complaint investigations.
 
Prescribes requirements for mediation of disputes between the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and its employees in attempting to reach an agreement concerning the implementation of proposed changes to the FAA personnel management system.
 

 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Universal Service Reform, Accountability, and Efficiency Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6356
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2008-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Auctions
Commerce
Education
Educational technology
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Housing and Community Development
Inspectors general
Internet
Interstate commerce
Interstate relations
Law
Libraries
Rural health
Secondary education
State laws
Subsidies
Telecommunication industry
Telecommunication rates
Telemedicine
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: 
Universal Service Reform, Accountability, and Efficiency Act of 2008 - Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to revise the policies concerning the principles for the advancement of universal service to require that the policies be based on the principles of affordability, efficiency, certain contribution and distribution requirements, transparency, consumer focus, and access to advanced telecommunications services for schools, libraries, and rural health care providers.
 
Requires that universal service support be used solely to provide voice (including IP-enabled voice) communications in high cost areas and to low-income households.
 
Authorizes the FCC to select any contribution mechanism that is consistent with the above principles and that: (1) is based exclusively on providing voice communications service; (2) does not assess broadband transmission or Internet access services; and (3) includes a universal service contribution low-income exemption.
 
Requires that universal service support decline over time.
 
Allows, after this Act's auction, only eligible telecommunications providers to receive support for service in high cost areas. Prohibits the receipt of support for services in high cost areas having a high percentage of high income households.
 
Prohibits a state from assessing interstate services in order to fund a state's universal service program.
 
Requires a reverse auction plan in which each auction winner has the privileges and obligations of a provider-of-last-resort to be used to distribute universal service support for voice communications service in high cost areas. Provides for subsequent auctions, including transitioning away from subsidizing a provider-of-last-resort.
 
Requires the FCC to: (1) determine whether the goals of universal service are being achieved in an economically efficient way; (2) strengthen the universal service program's oversight structure; (3) provide the FCC's Inspector General with resources to conduct regular and thorough audits; (4) permanently bar anyone committing universal service fraud from receiving future subsidies; and (5) develop increased penalties for service fund wrongdoing.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Beneficiary Protection Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6359
Sponsor: Rep. Biggert, Judy [R-IL-13]
Introduced: 2008-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Commerce
Consumer complaints
Drugs
Managed care
Marketing
Medicare
Prescription pricing
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Telemarketing

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: 
Medicare Beneficiary Protection Act of 2008 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and maintain a Medicare plan complaint system.
 
Requires non-network Medicare Advantage private fee-for-service plans to disclose providers that refuse to accept certain enrollees in the plan.
 
Prohibits certain marketing practices with respect to Medicare Advantage plans and prescription drug plans, including provision for meals or other items of monetary value, telemarketing, cross-selling, and up-selling.
 
Revises enrollment requirements under Medicare parts C (Medicare+Choice) and D (Voluntary Prescription Drugs). Allows an individual to discontinue an election of a Medicare+Choice plan if enrolled fewer than 60 days. Changes the beginning date of the annual, coordinated election period for such a plan from November 15 to October 1. 
 
Requires the Secretary, in establishing a process for the enrollment, disenrollment, termination, and change of enrollment of part D eligible individuals in prescription drug plans, to use rules similar to (and coordinated with) those under the Medicare+Choice program for a continuous open enrollment and disenrollment period for the first three months of the year in which an individual first becomes eligible.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2008-06-24
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: 2008-06-24
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: 2008-06-24
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: 2008-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Disabled Public Safety Officers Fairness Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6360
Sponsor: Rep. Kuhl, John R. "Randy", Jr. [R-NY-29]
Introduced: 2008-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Disability retirement
Disabled
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Fire fighters
Health
Law enforcement officers
Medical personnel
Paramedical personnel
Police
Workers' compensation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: 
Disabled Public Safety Officers Fairness Act of 2008 - Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to provide for payment of disability benefits to public safety officers who became permanently and totally disabled prior to the enactment of such Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Introduced in House
Stop Business with Terrorists Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6361
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2008-06-24 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: American investments
Armed Forces and National Security
Commerce
Corporate accountability
Executive orders
Export controls
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Government Operations and Politics
Import restrictions
International Affairs
Iran
Joint ventures
Middle East and North Africa
Partnerships
Sanctions (International law)
Subsidiary corporations
War and emergency powers

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: 
Stop Business with Terrorists Act of 2008 - Subjects the parent company of a foreign entity that violates certain executive orders prohibiting certain business transactions with Iran (or other such prohibitions imposed on Iran under the authority of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act) to penalties to the same extent as if the parent company had engaged in such violations. Provides that such prohibitions and penalties shall not apply to a parent company of an entity on which the President imposed a penalty for a violation that was in effect on the date of the enactment of this Act if the parent company divests or terminates its business with such entity not later than 90 days after such date of enactment.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-24
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 35, United States Code, and the Trademark Act of 1946 to provide that the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office, shall appoint administrative patent judges and administrative trademark judges, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-6362
Sponsor: Rep. Berman, Howard L. [D-CA-28]
Introduced: 2008-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative law judges
Intellectual property
Judges
Law
Patents
Trademarks

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: 
Transfers from the director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office to the Secretary of Commerce the authority to appoint administrative patent judges and administrative trademark judges. Requires the Secretary to consult with the director on such appointments.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-25
text: Introduced in House