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Federal Employee Combat Zone Tax Parity Act

Bill: 110-s-1166
Sponsor: Sen. Warner, John [R-VA]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Federal employees
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Hospital care
Income tax
Military operations
Tax exclusion
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: 
Federal Employee Combat Zone Tax Parity Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of civilian federal employees compensation for active service in a combat zone or for periods of hospitalization for wounds, diseases, or injuries incurred while serving in a combat zone.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4758)
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4757-4758)
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Civil Legal Assistance Attorney Loan Repayment Act

Bill: 110-s-1167
Sponsor: Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Government lending
Higher education
Law
Lawyers
Legal aid
Scholarships
Social Welfare
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: 
Civil Legal Assistance Attorney Loan Repayment Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to direct the Secretary of Education to make payments to holders of student loans under the Federal Family Education Loan, Direct Loan, and Perkins Loan programs on behalf of civil legal assistance attorneys for the duration of agreements between the Secretary and such attorneys that require their continued employment in such capacity for at least three years. 
 
Authorizes the Secretary to enter into additional agreements with civil legal assistance attorneys who have completed their service obligation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4758-4759)
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
State-Based Health Care Reform Act

Bill: 110-s-1169
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Coinsurance
Congress
Department of Health and Human Services
Economics and Public Finance
Executive reorganization
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Health insurance
Health planning
Insurance premiums
Legislation
Medically uninsured
Medicare
Performance measurement
Quality of care
Social Welfare
Subsidies

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: 
State-Based Health Care Reform Act - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a Health Care Coverage Task Force to: (1) approve state, local, or tribal applications for a health care coverage grant; (2) submit a legislative proposal concerning such approvals and recommendations on the level of funding required; and (3) establish minimum performance measures with respect to coverage, quality, and cost of state health care programs.

Prohibits the Task Force from approving an application that: (1) proposes to adopt more restrictive criteria for eligibility determinations for any federal, state, or local health care program; or (2) would result in making individuals enrolled in federal health programs ineligible.

Requires states seeking a matching grant to submit to the Task Force a state health care plan that: (1) designates the lead state entity that will be responsible for administering the program; (2) describes the benefits that will be provided to all covered individuals; (3) describes the number and percentage of currently uninsured individuals who will achieve coverage; (4) describes how the state will ensure that an increased number of individuals residing within the state will have expanded access to health care coverage; (5) includes provisions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of health care in the state; and (6) complies with premium and cost sharing limitations.

Sets forth procedures for congressional consideration of legislative proposals and recommendations.

Authorizes appropriations for the grant program and specifies offsetting savings and fee provisions. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to revise requirements for the reduction in the Medicare part B premium subsidy based on income.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5077-5079)
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1170
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Arid regions
Commemorations
Energy
Environmental Protection
Geothermal resources
Government Operations and Politics
Grazing
Islands
Land transfers
Landforms
Maps
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mineral reserves
Mines and mineral resources
Mining leases
Mountains
National monuments
Natural monuments
Nature conservation
Roads and highways
Transportation and Public Works
Utah
Water Resources Development
Water rights
Wilderness areas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2007 - Designates specified lands in the following areas of Utah as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System: (1) Great Basin; (2) Zion and Mojave Desert; (3) Grand Staircase-Escalante; (4) Moab-La Sal Canyons; (5) Henry Mountains; (6) Glen Canyon; (7) San Juan-Anasazi; (8) Canyonlands Basin; (9) San Rafael Swell; and (10) Book Cliffs and Uinta Basin. 
Sets forth administrative provisions regarding: (1) filing by the Secretary of the Interior of a map and a legal description of each designated wilderness area with appropriate congressional committees; (2) the exchange of state-owned lands within such areas; (3) federal reservation of water rights; (4) measurement of setbacks for roads with wilderness; (5) authorized livestock grazing; and (6) withdrawal of such lands from disposition under certain public land laws.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4764-4768)
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4764)
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Hunger-Free Communities Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1172
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Census
Child nutrition
Community organization
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Entitlements
Families
Food relief
Food supply insurance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Governmental investigations
Grants-in-aid
Hunger
Labor and Employment
Nonprofit organizations
Nutrition
Poverty
Social Welfare
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: 
Hunger-Free Communities Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture conduct a study of hunger in the United States and develop recommendations on reducing domestic hunger.
 
Directs the Secretary to make: (1) hunger-free communities collaborative grants to eligible public food program service providers or nonprofit organizations; (2) hunger-free communities infrastructure grants to eligible emergency feeding organizations; and (3) hunger-free communities training and technical assistance grants to eligible national or regional nonprofit organizations. (States that such grants' federal share shall not exceed 80%.)
 
Sets forth grant priorities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4778-4780)
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4777-4778)
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Freedom of Choice Act

Bill: 110-s-1173
Sponsor: Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Subjects: Abortion
Civil actions and liability
Communication in medicine
Discrimination in medical care
Discrimination in public facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Health
Law
Patients' rights
Reproduction
Sex discrimination
Women
Women's health
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: 
Freedom of Choice Act - Declares that it is the policy of the United States that every woman has the fundamental right to choose to: (1) bear a child; (2) terminate a pregnancy prior to fetal viability; or (3) terminate a pregnancy after fetal viability when necessary to protect her life or her health. 
 
Prohibits a federal, state, or local governmental entity from: (1) denying or interfering with a woman's right to exercise such choices; or (2) discriminating against the exercise of those rights in the regulation or provision of benefits, facilities, services, or information. Provides that such prohibition shall apply retroactively. 
 
Authorizes an individual aggrieved by a violation of this Act to obtain appropriate relief, including relief against a governmental entity, in a civil action.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Natural Gas Act to modify a provision relating to the siting, construction, expansion, and operation of liquefied natural gas terminals.

Bill: 110-s-1174
Sponsor: Sen. Cardin, Benjamin L. [D-MD]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Department of Energy
Energy facilities
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Liquefied natural gas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: 
Amends the Natural Gas Act to repeal the exclusive authority of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to approve or deny an application for the siting, construction, expansion, and operation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals.

Predicates FERC approval or denial authority regarding such application upon the express concurrence of each state affected by the application.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4780)
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1175
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-04-19 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Africa (Sub-Saharan)
Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Arms sales
Arrest
Child health
Child welfare
Children's rights
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil defense
Colombia
Compulsory military service
Congress
Congress and foreign policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Cults
Diplomacy
Diplomats
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Forced labor
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign service
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations
Health
Human rights
Insurgency
Kidnapping
Labor and Employment
Latin America
Mental health services
Military assistance
Military education
Military personnel
Military training
Nongovernmental organizations
Paramilitary forces
President and foreign policy
Recruiting and enlistment
Religion
Sanctions (International law)
South Asia
Sri Lanka
Standards
Uganda
Vocational and technical education
Youth employment

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: 
Child Soldier Prevention Act of 2007 - Defines &quot;child soldier.&quot; 
 
Prohibits, with a national interest waiver, funds appropriated or otherwise made available for specified military and related areas from being obligated or otherwise made available to the government of a country identified by the Department of State as having governmental armed forces or government supported armed groups, including paramilitaries, militias, or civil defense forces, that recruit or use child soldiers. 
 
Directs the Secretary of State to notify any government so identified.
 
Authorizes the President to reinstate assistance upon certifying to Congress that a government is implementing: (1) compliance measures; and (2) mechanisms to prohibit future use of child soldiers and to ensure that no children are recruited, conscripted, or otherwise compelled to serve as child soldiers. 
 
Authorizes the President to provide assistance to a country for international military education and training otherwise prohibited under this Act upon certifying to Congress that such assistance is for programs that implement measures to demobilize child soldiers and for programs to support professionalization of the military.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-24
text: Committee on the Judiciary. Hearings held.
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4781-4782)
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4780-4781)
action_date: 2007-04-19
text: Introduced in Senate
Credit Card Minimum Payment Warning Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1176
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Consumer education
Counseling
Credit cards
Debt
Debtor and creditor
Federal Reserve System
Federal Trade Commission
Financial services
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Interest
Interest rates
Law
Nonprofit organizations
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: 
Credit Card Minimum Payment Warning Act of 2007 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to include among the mandatory disclosures at each billing cycle of open end consumer credit plans: (1) the words &quot;Minimum Payment Warning: Making only the minimum payment will increase the amount of interest that you pay and the time it will take to repay your outstanding balance;&quot; (2) the number of years and months it would take the consumer to pay the entire amount of the balance if the consumer pays only the required minimum monthly payments; (3) the total cost to the consumer, as well as a breakdown in principal and interest payments, of paying that balance in full if the consumer pays only the required minimum monthly payments, and if no further advances are made; (4) the monthly payment amount that would be required to eliminate the outstanding balance in 36 months if no further advances are made; and (5) a toll-free telephone number for information about accessing credit counseling and debt management services.
 
Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Trade Commission jointly to issue guidelines for creditors to establish and maintain a toll-free telephone number for such disclosures.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4812)
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4811-4812)
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Superfund Equity and Megasite Remediation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1179
Sponsor: Sen. Casey, Robert P., Jr. [D-PA]
Introduced: 2007-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporation taxes
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Government trust funds
Hazardous wastes
Income tax
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Pollution taxes
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: 
Superfund Equity and Megasite Remediation Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reinstate the Hazardous Substance Superfund financing rate and the corporate environmental income tax, except in certain calendar quarters in which the unobligated balance in the Hazardous Substance Superfund exceeds $5.7 billion. Provides for a 50% increase in the Hazardous Substance Superfund financing rate and the corporate environmental income tax between 2008 and 2013 to fund response actions at Superfund sites estimated to cost more than $50 million (megasites) or which pose high health risks.

Establishes the Megasites and High Risk Sites Cleanup Account in the Hazardous Substance Superfund. Transfers to such Account revenues resulting from the temporary 50% increase in the Hazardous Substance Superfund financing rate and the corporate environmental income tax.

Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to report to Congress annually on the progress of response actions funded by the Hazardous Substance Superfund.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4813)
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Workforce Housing Construction for the GO Zone Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1180
Sponsor: Sen. Landrieu, Mary L. [D-LA]
Introduced: 2007-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Alabama
Block grants
Bonds
Community development
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Infrastructure
Louisiana
Low-income housing
Mississippi
Social Welfare
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: 
Workforce Housing Construction for the GO Zone Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) extend through 2010 the placed-in-service date requirement for buildings in the Gulf Opportunity Zone (GO Zone) for purposes of the low-income housing tax credit; (2) allow a low-income housing tax credit for buildings in the GO Zone, the Rita GO Zone, or the Wilma GO Zone (GO Zones) during a specified 10-year period; (3) provide a basis adjustment for low-income housing projects in the GO Zones; (4) exclude Community Development Block Grant funds from consideration in determining whether GO Zone buildings are federally subsidized; and (5) modify certain rules relating to tax-exempt financing of GO Zone buildings.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S4814-4815)
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S4813-4814)
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate
Shareholder Vote on Executive Compensation Act

Bill: 110-s-1181
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-04-20 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Corporate management
Corporate mergers
Corporate reorganizations
Executive compensation
Golden parachutes
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Labor and Employment
Law
Securities and Exchange Commission
Securities regulation
Stockholders
Voting

Summary:
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: 
Shareholder Vote on Executive Compensation Act - Amends the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require a proxy, consent, or authorization for a shareholder meeting occurring on or after January 1, 2009, to permit a separate shareholder vote to approve executive compensation.
 
States that such shareholder vote shall not be binding on the board of directors, nor construed: (1) as overruling a board decision; (2) to create or imply additional fiduciary duty by such board; and (3) to restrict or limit shareholder ability to make proposals for inclusion in proxy materials related to executive compensation.
 
Requires proxy solicitation material for a shareholder meeting occurring on or after January 1, 2009, concerning disposition of substantially all of an issuer's assets, to disclose compensation agreements or understandings with the principal executive officers of either the issuer or acquiring issuer regarding any type of (golden parachute) compensation which: (1) relates to such disposition; and (2) has not been subject to a shareholder vote.
 
Provides that proxy solicitation material containing such executive compensation disclosures shall require a separate shareholder vote to approve such agreements or understandings.
 
States that such shareholder vote shall not be binding on the board of directors, nor construed: (1) as overruling a board decision; (2) to create or imply additional fiduciary duty by such board; and (3) to constrain shareholder ability to make proposals for inclusion in proxy materials related to executive compensation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-04-20
text: Introduced in Senate