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Data Security Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1260
Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2007-05-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Bank records
Civil actions and liability
Class actions (Civil procedure)
Commerce
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Computer security measures
Consumer credit
Consumer education
Consumer protection
Crime prevention
Data banks
Department of the Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
Federal Trade Commission
Federal home loan banks
Federal preemption
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Identification devices
Identity theft
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
National Credit Union Administration
Science, Technology, Communications
Securities and Exchange Commission
State laws

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: 
Data Security Act of 2007 - Prescribes security procedures which an entity that maintains or communicates sensitive account or personal information must implement and enforce in order to protect the information from an unauthorized use likely to result in substantial harm or inconvenience to the consumer.

Grants exclusive enforcement powers to specified federal regulatory agencies with oversight of financial institutions. 

Denies a private right of action, including a class action, regarding any act or practice regulated under this Act.
 
 Prohibits any civil or criminal action in state court or under state law relating to any act or practice governed under this Act.
 
Prescribes data security standards to be implemented by federal agencies.

Preempts state law with respect to the responsibilities of any person to protect against and investigate such data security breaches and mitigate any losses or harm resulting from them.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Montgomery GI Bill for Life Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1261
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2007-05-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces reserves
Disability retirement
Disabled
Education
Higher education
Military operations
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: 
Montgomery GI Bill for Life Act of 2007 - Provides that, if an individual eligible for educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill is enrolled in an educational institution and the period of such individual's entitlement (ten years after discharge or release from active duty) would expire during a quarter or semester of enrollment, that period shall be extended to the end of that quarter or semester. Allows such an extension until the earlier of the end of the course or 12 weeks, in the case of an educational institution not regularly operated on a quarter or semester basis.
 
Repeals the: (1) 14-year (after first becoming entitled) limit on the use of educational assistance by members of the Selected Reserve; and (2) ten-year limit on the use educational assistance by members of the Ready Reserve who are separated due to disability after supporting contingency and certain other operations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5397-5398)
action_date: 2007-05-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Petroleum Consumer Price Gouging Protection Act

Bill: 110-s-1263
Sponsor: Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA]
Introduced: 2007-05-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Commerce
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economic statistics
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Energy prices
Energy shortages
Energy supplies
Fines (Penalties)
Fraud
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government statistics
Law
Parties to actions
Petroleum
Petroleum industry
Profit
Restrictive trade practices
Wholesale trade

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: 
Petroleum Consumer Price Gouging Protection Act - Declares it unlawful for a supplier to sell crude oil, gasoline, or petroleum distillates at an unconscionably excessive price in an area the President declares an energy emergency area.
 
States it is unlawful for any person to employ, in connection with the wholesale purchase or sale of crude oil, gasoline, or petroleum distillates, any manipulative or deceptive device or contrivance in contravention of Federal Trade Commission (FTC) rules. 
 
States it is unlawful for any person to report information to the FTC related to the wholesale price of crude oil, gasoline, or petroleum distillates if the person: (1) knows, or reasonably should know, the information to be false or misleading; and (2) intends the false or misleading data to affect market data compiled by the FTC for statistical or analytical purposes.
 
Authorizes the President to declare a federal energy emergency if the well-being of U.S. citizens is at risk because of a shortage or imminent shortage of adequate supplies of crude oil, gasoline, or petroleum distillates because of: (1) a disruption in the national distribution system; or (2) significant pricing anomalies in the national energy markets for such products.
 
Empowers the FTC and state attorneys general to enforce this Act.

Declares that this Act does not preempt state law.

Sets forth civil and criminal penalties for violations of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a credit to holders of rural renaissance bonds.

Bill: 110-s-1264
Sponsor: Sen. Coleman, Norm [R-MN]
Introduced: 2007-05-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bonds
Economics and Public Finance
Electric utilities
Energy
Environmental Protection
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Infrastructure
Rural economic development
Tax credits
Waste water treatment
Water Resources Development
Water supply
Water treatment plants

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow holders of rural renaissance bonds a tax credit of 25% of the annual credit amount for such bonds as determined by the Secretary of the Treasury. Defines &quot;rural renaissance bond&quot; as any bond issued by a rural renaissance bond lender, a cooperative electric company, or a governmental body that is used for capital expenditures for qualified projects in rural areas, including projects for water or waste treatment, distance learning or telemedicine programs, rural electric and telephone programs, and broadband access programs.

Sets forth rules for bond refinancing, maturity limitations, and allocations, including a requirement that 95% of the proceeds from the sale of a rural renaissance bond be spent on qualified projects within five years from the date of a bond issuance. 

Terminates the authority for issuing rural renaissance bonds after 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to expand eligibility for veterans' mortgage life insurance to include members of the Armed Forced receiving specially adapted housing assistance from the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Bill: 110-s-1265
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2007-05-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Disabled
Finance and Financial Sector
Housing and Community Development
Housing for the disabled
Life insurance
Mortgages
Veterans' loans

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: 
Makes eligible for veterans' mortgage life insurance members of the Armed Forces receiving specially adapted housing assistance through the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5502)
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5502)
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Veterans' Dignified Burial Assistance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1266
Sponsor: Sen. Craig, Larry E. [R-ID]
Introduced: 2007-05-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Cemeteries and funerals
Economics and Public Finance
Grants-in-aid
Veterans' benefits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: 
Veterans' Dignified Burial Assistance Act of 2007 - Increases from $300 to $400 the burial plot allowance paid for veterans interred in cemeteries other than national cemeteries. Waives the requirement that, for a state to receive such allowance for the reimbursement of burial costs, it must file for such within two years after the burial or cremation of the veteran.
 
Authorizes the use of up to $5 million per year under the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) state cemetery grant program for operating and maintaining state cemeteries. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5503-5504)
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5502-5503)
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Free Flow of Information Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1267
Sponsor: Sen. Lugar, Richard G. [R-IN]
Introduced: 2007-05-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Authors and authorship
Business records
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Confidential communications
Crime and Law Enforcement
Criminal investigation
Criminal procedure
Discovery (Law)
Evidence (Law)
Freedom of the press
Government Operations and Politics
Informers
Journalism
Journalistic ethics
Newspapers
Periodicals
Press
Prosecution
Radio stations
Science, Technology, Communications
Subpoena
Television stations
Witnesses

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: 
Free Flow of Information Act of 2007 - Prohibits a federal entity (an entity or employee of the judicial or executive branch or an administrative agency) from compelling a covered person (a person engaged in journalism, including their supervisor, employer, parent, subsidiary, or affiliate) to testify or produce any document unless a court makes specified determinations by a preponderance of the evidence.
 
Requires the content of compelled testimony or documents to be limited and narrowly tailored. 
 
Applies this Act to communications service providers with regard to testimony or any record, information, or other communication that relates to a business transaction between such providers and covered persons. Sets forth notice requirements. Permits a court to delay notice to a covered person upon determining that such notice would pose a substantial threat to the integrity of a criminal investigation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5504-5505)
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Domestic Offshore Energy Security Act

Bill: 110-s-1268
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-05-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Carbon cycle
Carbon dioxide
Caribbean area
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Continental shelf
Cuba
Department of the Interior
Equipment and supplies
Export controls
Florida
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Gas in submerged lands
Gas industry
Geology
Georgia
Government Operations and Politics
Grants-in-aid
Gulf of Mexico
Latin America
Law
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
North Carolina
Oil and gas leases
Oil well drilling
Petroleum in submerged lands
Petroleum industry
Prospecting
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Right to travel
South Carolina
Territorial waters
Transportation and Public Works
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: 
Domestic Offshore Energy Security Act - Authorizes United States persons to: (1) engage in any transaction necessary for exploration and extraction of hydrocarbon resources from any portion of any foreign exclusive economic zone contiguous to the Exclusive Economic Zone of the United States; and (2) export without license authority all equipment necessary for such activity.
 
Amends the Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to grant general license authority for travel-related expenditures to, from, or within Cuba by persons engaging in hydrocarbon exploration and extraction in any part of a foreign maritime Exclusive Economic Zone contiguous to the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone.
 
Amends the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 to: (1) repeal the oil and gas leasing moratorium governing any area east of the Military Mission Line; and (2) decrease from within 125 to within 45 miles of the Florida coastline the moratorium upon oil and gas leasing in the Eastern and Central Planning Area.
 
Instructs the Secretary of the Interior to promulgate regulations that establish environmental safeguards for exploration and production of oil and natural gas on the outer Continental Shelf.
 
Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an oil and natural gas inventory beneath the waters of the outer Continental Shelf off the coasts of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, or Georgia, but only upon request of the affected state governor.
 
Amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 regarding the program of grants to oil and gas producers to carry out projects to inject carbon dioxide for the purpose of enhancing oil or natural gas recovery while increasing the sequestration of carbon dioxide. Directs the Secretary of Energy to grant priority consideration to applications that, together with meeting other requirements, are carried out in geologically challenging fields.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-12
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7508-7511)
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Pilots Equitable Treatment Act

Bill: 110-s-1270
Sponsor: Sen. Akaka, Daniel K. [D-HI]
Introduced: 2007-05-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Aircraft pilots
Airline employees
Annuities
Finance and Financial Sector
Retirement age
Transportation and Public Works
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: 
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Pilots Equitable Treatment Act - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), with regard to both single-employer and multiemployer plan guaranteed benefits, to require the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, in the case of commercial airline pilots required by Federal Aviation Administration regulation to retire before age 65, to compute the actuarial value of monthly benefits in the form of a life annuity commencing at the required retirement age.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5507)
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5507)
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Homecoming Enhancement Research and Oversight (HERO) Act

Bill: 110-s-1271
Sponsor: Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-05-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Afghanistan
Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Brain
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Crime and Law Enforcement
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Families
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Head injuries
Health
Health planning
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Medical economics
Mental health
Middle East and North Africa
Military dependents
Military medicine
Military occupation
Military operations
Military personnel
Minorities
National Guard
Post-traumatic stress disorder
South Asia
Terrorism
Trauma care
Veterans' education
Veterans' employment
Veterans' medical care
Vocational and technical education
Women
Women soldiers
Women veterans
Women's health

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: 
Homecoming Enhancement Research and Oversight (HERO) Act - Directs the Secretary of Defense to enter into an agreement with the National Academy of Sciences for a study of the physical and mental health and other readjustment needs of members and former members of the Armed Forces who deployed in Operations Iraqi Freedom or Enduring Freedom, and their families. Requires: (1) reports, from the Academy to the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs and from the Secretary to Congress, on such study; (2) the public availability of the reports; (3) such Secretaries to develop a joint plan to address report findings; and (4) the public availability of the Secretaries' response.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1272
Sponsor: Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA]
Introduced: 2007-05-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Families
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Labor and Employment
Military dependents
National Guard
Veterans' benefits
Veterans' employment

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: 
Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a national combat veteran reintegration program (to be known as the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program) to provide National Guard members and their families with information, services, referral, and outreach opportunities throughout the entire deployment cycle. Requires the Program to consist of informational events and activities for such members, their families, and community members through the following phases of the deployment cycle: (1) pre-deployment; (2) deployment; (3) demobilization; and (4) post-deployment-reconstitution.
 
Requires the: (1) National Guard Bureau to establish the Office for Reintegration Programs to administer state National Guard reintegration programs; and (2) Bureau Chief to establish a Center for Excellence in Reintegration.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow permanent look-through treatment of payments between related foreign corporations.

Bill: 110-s-1273
Sponsor: Sen. Kyl, Jon [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2007-05-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Dividends
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Holding companies
Income tax
Interest
Rent
Tax deferral
Taxation of foreign income

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent the tax rule exempting dividends, interest, rents, and royalties received or accrued from certain controlled foreign corporations by a related entity from treatment as foreign holding company income (thus permitting tax deferral of such income).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5507-5508)
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Human and Pet Food Safety Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1274
Sponsor: Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL]
Introduced: 2007-05-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Animals
Commerce
Consumer education
Defective products
Department of Health and Human Services
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Food industry
Food safety
Foodborne diseases
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health
Health warnings
Imports
Labeling
Pets

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: 
Human and Pet Food Safety Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to require a person that has reason to believe that any food introduced into interstate commerce may be in violation of the FFDCA to immediately notify the Secretary of the Health and Human Services of the identity and location of the food.

Requires the Secretary, upon a determination that such food is in violation of the FFDCA and that there is a reasonable probability that the food, if consumed, would present a threat to the public health, to give appropriate persons an opportunity to: (1) cease distribution of the food; (2) notify all relevant persons to cease distribution of the food; (3) recall the food; and (4) provide notice to consumers and public health officials. Authorizes the Secretary to control and possess the food and to order the person to immediately cease distribution of the food if the person refuses or does not adequately carry out such actions.

Sets forth certification and inspection requirements for foreign governments and foreign firms seeking to import food into the Unites States.

Directs the Secretary to take certain action during an ongoing recall of human or pet food, including posting information regarding recalled products on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) website.

Requires the Secretary to establish: (1) processing and ingredient standards for feed, pet food, animal waste, and ingredient definitions; (2) update standards for pet food labeling that includes nutritional information and ingredient information; and (3) an early warning and surveillance system to identify contaminations of the pet food supply and outbreaks of illness from pet food.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5508-5510)
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Introduced in Senate
Thomas J. Manton Prostate Cancer Early Detection and Treatment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-1275
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-05-02 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Blood pressure
Cholesterol
Economics and Public Finance
Grants-in-aid
Medicaid
Medical screening
Medical tests
Preventive medicine
Prostate cancer
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: 
Thomas J. Manton Prostate Cancer Early Detection and Treatment Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to allow the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to make grants to states to carry out: (1) prostate cancer prevention programs (including screening and referrals for treatment); and (2) demonstration projects to provide preventive health services with respect to prostate cancer (including blood pressure and cholesterol screenings). 
 
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to allow states to provide medical assistance to individuals who have been screened for prostate cancer under this Act and who need treatment for prostate cancer. 
 
Applies provisions related to breast and cervical cancer programs to programs under this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-05-02
text: Introduced in Senate