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Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-876
Sponsor: Rep. Chabot, Steve [R-OH-1]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative fees
Business records
Child pornography
Child sexual abuse
Commerce
Criminal investigation
Criminal justice information
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic mail systems
Electronic surveillance
Evidence (Law)
Ex-offenders
Families
Fines (Penalties)
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Informers
International Affairs
International cooperation
Internet
Law
Liability (Law)
Mandatory sentences
Missing children
Probation
Prosecution
Recidivists
Science, Technology, Communications
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Sex offenders
Telecommunication industry
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online Act of 2007 or the SAFE Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to expand the reporting requirements of electronic communication and remote computing service providers with respect to violations of child sexual exploitation and pornography laws. Requires such service providers, in reporting violations of such laws to the CyberTipline of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to provide: (1) information on the Internet identity of a suspected sex offender, including the electronic mail address, website address, uniform resource locator, or other identifying information; (2) the time child pornography was uploaded or discovered; (3) geographic location information for the offender; and (4) images of such child pornography. Requires the Center to forward each report which it receives from a service provider to a designated law enforcement agency.
 
Requires service providers to preserve images of child pornography for evidentiary purposes. 
 
Grants service providers and the Center immunity from civil claims or criminal charges for complying the requirements of this Act, except for certain intentional or reckless misconduct.
 
Requires the U.S. Trade Representative, the Attorney General, and other relevant federal officials to encourage foreign governments to combat child sexual exploitation and pornography. 
 
Authorizes appropriations for grants to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. 
 
Authorizes courts to order monitoring of Internet use by a convicted sex offender as a condition for such offender's supervised release. 
 
Imposes enhanced criminal penalties for use of the Internet to violate child pornography or sexual exploitation laws. 
 
Requires the Attorney General to make publicly available reports on investigations and prosecutions of child sexual exploitation crimes.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Adams National Historical Park Boundary Addition Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-877
Sponsor: Rep. Delahunt, William D. [D-MA-10]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Adams Administration
Boundaries
Commemorations
Ex-presidents
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Land transfers
Massachusetts
National parks

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
Adams National Historical Park Boundary Addition Act of 2007 - Amends the Adams National Historical Park Act of 1998 to revise the boundary of Adams National Historical Park to include the Quincy Homestead and carriage shed at 34 Butler Road in Quincy, Massachusetts, within the Park.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-03-06
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Simplification Through Additional Reporting Tax Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-878
Sponsor: Rep. Emanuel, Rahm [D-IL-5]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Brokers
Department of the Treasury
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Law
Mutual funds
Securities
Tax administration
Tax returns

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
Simplification Through Additional Reporting Tax Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to include within the reporting requirements of investment brokers the adjusted basis of any security owned by customers of such brokers.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Verifying the Outcome of Tomorrow's Elections Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-879
Sponsor: Rep. Feeney, Tom [R-FL-24]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Absentee voting
Ballots
Computer security measures
Congress
Congressional elections
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal justice information
Data banks
Driver licenses
Election administration
Electronic data interchange
Fines (Penalties)
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Identification of criminals
Photography
Presidential elections
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Social security numbers
State laws
Transportation and Public Works
Voter registration
Voting machines

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
Verifying the Outcome of Tomorrow's Elections Act of 2007 - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to prohibit the appropriate state or local election official from providing a ballot for an election for federal office to an individual who desires to vote in person, unless the individual presents to the official a current, valid, state-issued photo identification based on proof of U.S. citizenship. Imposes similar requirements with respect to individuals voting by mail. 

Requires each state to conduct regular tests of the equipment used to tabulate votes in voting systems to ensure that a system meets specified error rate standards and that the equipment works correctly.

Prohibits a state from permitting any individual to tabulate votes cast on a voting system, or to certify the tabulation of votes, unless that individual has satisfactorily undergone a criminal history background check using the national criminal history background check system and the state criminal history repositories of all states in which the individual has resided.

Requires a state to permit a representative of each political party with a candidate on the ballot used at a precinct during an election to observe the tabulation of the votes cast on the voting system and the certification of such tabulation.

Makes it unlawful for any person to pay any other person for distributing voter registration applications in federal elections or for collecting completed or partially completed applications, if the amount of the payment is determined on the basis of the number of applications distributed or collected.

Requires production of a permanent, individually verifiable paper record of each vote cast.

Requires voluntary voting system guidelines to ensure the security of any data transmitted or received electronically by voting systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Mercury-Free Vaccines Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-881
Sponsor: Rep. Weldon, Dave [R-FL-15]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Biological warfare
Child health
Communication in medicine
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug adulteration
Drug approvals
Emergency Management
Environmental Protection
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health education
Influenza
Law
Licenses
Mercury
Pregnant women
Public health
Terrorism
Vaccines
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
Mercury-Free Vaccines Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem a banned mercury-containing vaccine to be adulterated. Amends the Public Health Service Act to provide that a vaccine is a banned mercury-containing vaccine if one dose of the vaccine contains one or more micrograms of mercury in any form.
 
 Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to declare that an actual or potential bioterrorist incident or other public health emergency makes the administration of such vaccines advisable for a specified period.
 
Requires the Secretary to prohibit the distribution of banned mercury-containing influenza vaccines that are approved as biological products to: (1) any child under the age of three years old (effective July 1, 2007); (2) pregnant women if the vaccine contains thimerosal (effective July 1, 2007); and (3) any child under the age of six (effective July 1, 2008).
 
Requires the Secretary to revise the vaccine information included with mercury-containing vaccines to include: (1) a statement that indicates the presence of mercury in the vaccine; (2) information on the availability of any mercury-free or mercury-reduced alternative vaccine and instructions on how to obtain such an alternative vaccine; and (3) a recommendation against administration of any mercury-containing vaccine to a pregnant woman.
 
Expresses the sense of Congress that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) should disseminate, with any vaccine-related information, a recommendation against administration of any thimerosal-containing vaccine to a pregnant woman.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Oglala Sioux Tribe Angostura Irrigation Project Modernization and Development Act

Bill: 110-hr-883
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Native Americans
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Auditing
Dams
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Environmental Protection
Federal aid to Indians
Finance and Financial Sector
Fishery management
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Health
Housing and Community Development
Indian economic development
Indian education
Indian lands
Indian medical care
Indian water rights
Infrastructure
Infrastructure (Economics)
Interest
Investment of public funds
Irrigation
Maintenance and repair
Minorities
Missouri River development
Outdoor recreation
Planning
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Reservoirs
Restoration ecology
Riparian ecology
South Dakota
Sports and Recreation
Water Resources Development
Water pollution control
Water quality
Water supply
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
Oglala Sioux Tribe Angostura Irrigation Project Modernization and Development Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to: (1) carry out the modernization and improvement of the facilities at the Angostura Unit of the Pick-Sloan Missouri River basin program; and (2) provide for the delivery of water saved through such modernization and improvement for fish and wildlife purposes and environmental restoration on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (South Dakota).

Establishes the Oglala Sioux Tribal Development Trust Fund.

Requires the governing body of the Oglala Sioux Tribe of South Dakota to prepare a plan for the use of payments to the Tribe out of the Fund.

Prohibits distribution of any payment to any member of the Tribe on a per capita basis.

States that no payment made to the Tribe shall result in the reduction or denial of any entitlement service or program.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-25
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-02-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E290)
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Graduation Really Achieves Dreams Act

Bill: 110-hr-887
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Community and school
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Dropouts
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational research
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government paperwork
Higher education
Literacy programs
Mathematics
Nonprofit organizations
Parent-school relationships
Public schools
Reading
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student aid
Subcontractors

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
Graduation Really Achieves Dreams Act or the GRAD Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award a grant to Project GRAD USA, a nonprofit educational organization for improving high school graduation and college attendance and completion rates for disadvantaged students, to provide technical assistance and support through subgrants to existing and new programs that implement a set of integrated education reform services.
 
Requires the grantee to select only subgrantees that serve a substantial number or percentage of low-income students. Requires the programs to identify one or more groups of public schools at which services will be provided through a feeder pattern through which elementary and secondary schools channel students having participated in program services into an identified high school.
 
Requires program services to include: (1) research-based programs in reading, mathematics, and classroom management; (2) campus-based social services programs, including increasing family and community involvement in schools; (3) a college access program, including providing college scholarships for students who meet established criteria, increasing student and family college awareness, and assisting students to apply for college financial aid; and (4) other services the grantee identifies as necessary.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-05
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Business Travel Facilitation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-888
Sponsor: Rep. Meeks, Gregory W. [D-NY-6]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Admission of nonimmigrants
Affiliated corporations
Alien labor
Aliens
Business education
Commerce
Contracts
Department of Homeland Security
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Identification devices
International cooperation
Joint ventures
Labor and Employment
Law
Passports
Service industries
Skilled labor
Technical education
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
Business Travel Facilitation Act of 2007 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to include business facilitation visitors from a qualifying country as nonimmigrant aliens visiting the United States temporarily for business.
 
Defines &quot;business facilitation visitor&quot; as an alien visiting the United States temporarily to: (1) provide services pursuant to a qualifying services contract; or (2) provide management or technical training to, or receive management or technical training from personnel of a U.S. entity. Sets forth conditions with respect to: (1) provision of services; and (2) provision or receipt of management or technical training.
 
 Provides a period of authorized admission of: (1) one year with a one-time six month extension for an alien providing services; and (2) one year for an alien providing or receiving management or technical training.
 
Prohibits such aliens from changing nonimmigrant status or adjusting to immigrant status.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of Homeland Security to prohibit business facilitation entries from a country whose nationals have engaged in a pattern of fraud involving visas or other immigration matters.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Dog and Cat Fur Prohibition Enforcement Act

Bill: 110-hr-891
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, James P. [D-VA-8]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Animals
Cats
Commerce
Dogs
Export controls
Fur trade
Import restrictions
Labeling
Protection of animals

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
 

 
Dog and Cat Fur Prohibition Enforcement Act - Amends provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930 that prohibit the importation of dog or cat fur to modify the definitions of &quot;cat fur&quot; and &quot;dog fur&quot; to include the pelt or skin of the domestic cat or dog, respectively.
 
Amends the Fur Products Labeling Act to expand the definition of &quot;fur product&quot; to include all fur as defined by such Act regardless of the quantity used.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-02-08
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
action_date: 2007-02-07
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: 2007-02-07
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: 2007-02-07
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: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Savings for Working Families Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-892
Sponsor: Rep. Pitts, Joseph R. [R-PA-16]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bank accounts
Bank records
Capital
College costs
Community development banking
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Education
Federal aid to Indians
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Home ownership
Housing and Community Development
Housing finance
Income tax
Minorities
Nonprofit organizations
Personal budgets
Saving and investment
Social Welfare
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax exemption
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
Savings for Working Families Act of 2007 - Allows certain low-income individuals between age 18 and 61 to establish tax-exempt individual development accounts (IDAs) to pay for certain qualified expenses, including education expenses, first-time homebuyer costs, and business capitalization or expansion costs. Sets forth rules for the establishment, maintenance, and termination of IDAs. Permits tax-free withdrawals from IDAs for qualified expenses, but requires IDA beneficiaries to complete one or more financial education courses prior to making an IDA withdrawal.

Allows certain financial institutions, tax-exempt organizations, and Indian tribes to sponsor and administer IDAs. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow such entities a business-related tax credit for the cost of administering IDAs and for making matching contributions to IDAs in parallel accounts. 

Provides that IDA amounts shall be disregarded for purposes of determining eligibility for assistance under certain means-tested federal programs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-893
Sponsor: Rep. Poe, Ted [R-TX-2]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Law
Legal education
Public defenders
Public prosecutors
Scholarships
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
John R. Justice Prosecutors and Defenders Incentive Act of 2007- Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to direct the Attorney General to assume the obligation to repay student loans for borrowers who agree to remain employed, for at least three years, as: (1) state or local criminal prosecutors; or (2) state, local, or federal public defenders in criminal cases. Allows a borrower and the Attorney General to enter into an additional loan repayment agreement, after the required three-year period, for a successive period of service which may be less than three years. Limits the amount paid under such program on behalf of any borrower to $10,000 per calendar year and $60,000 total. 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
Responsible Campaign Communications Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-894
Sponsor: Rep. Price, David E. [D-NC-4]
Introduced: 2007-02-07 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Campaign funds
Congress
Congressional elections
Election candidates
Electronic mail systems
Government paperwork
Internet
Political advertising
Presidential elections
Science, Technology, Communications
Telephone

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: 
Responsible Campaign Communications Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to: (1) require audio and video communications transmitted through the Internet or any form of electronic mail to meet applicable requirements with respect to any audio and video portions; and (2) subject to disclosure requirements for communications transmitted through radio any campaign communications made through prerecorded telephone calls.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Introduced in House