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Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-473
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2007-02-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Auditing
Bank records
Cartels
Checks
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commerce
Conspiracy
Consumer credit
Counterfeiting
Criminal investigation
Electronic funds transfers
Extraterritoriality
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign banks and banking
Forgery
Government securities
Grand jury
Indictments
Law
Money laundering
Obstruction of justice
Prosecution
Right of privacy
Science, Technology, Communications
Secret service
Securities
Smuggling
Subpoena
Undercover operations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: 
Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Act of 2007 - Amends money laundering provisions of the federal criminal code to redefine &quot;specified unlawful activity&quot; as: (1) any act constituting an offense in violation of the laws of the United States or any State punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding 1 year; and (2) any act occurring outside of the United States that would constitute such an offense if committed within U.S. jurisdiction. 

Revises the procedure for issuing subpoenas in money laundering cases. 

Assigns a standard value to monetary instruments payable to bearer in blank (with no amount indicated on the instrument). 

Increases the penalty for bulk cash smuggling in or out of the United States from five to 10 years. 

Redefines money laundering transactions involving amounts greater than $10,000 to include commingling of funds from separate accounts and structured transactions designed to avoid reporting requirements. 

Permits a single indictment for multiple money laundering violations that are part of the same scheme or continuing course of conduct. 

Prohibits illegal (currently, unlicensed) money transmitting businesses. 

Extends the jurisdiction of the United States in money laundering cases to include activities outside of the United States that have an effect in the United States. 

Prohibits the possession of any material that can be used to counterfeit U.S. currencies.

Establishes funding authority for the U.S. Secret Service in FY2008-FY2010, including the authority to use funds obtained from any undercover investigative operation to offset expenses incurred in such operation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1524-1526)
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1523-1524)
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to increase the number of Deputy United States Marshals that investigate immigration crimes.

Bill: 110-s-475
Sponsor: Sen. Domenici, Pete V. [R-NM]
Introduced: 2007-02-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Border patrols
Criminal investigation
Federal law enforcement officers
Government Operations and Politics
Illegal aliens
Immigration
Judicial officers
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: 
Directs the Attorney General, subject to the availability of appropriations, to increase by at least 50 for each of FY2008-FY2012 the number of full-time Deputy U.S. Marshals that investigate criminal immigration matters. Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1528)
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1528)
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to amend chapter 3 of title 28, United States Code, to provide for 11 circuit judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Bill: 110-s-476
Sponsor: Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA]
Introduced: 2007-02-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Appellate courts
District of Columbia
Judges

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: 
Amends the federal judicial code to reduce the number of judges on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit from 12 to 11.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Introduced in Senate
American Falls Reservoir District Number 2 Conveyance Act

Bill: 110-s-477
Sponsor: Sen. Crapo, Mike [R-ID]
Introduced: 2007-02-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Commemorations
Concentration camps
Economics and Public Finance
Grants-in-aid
Historic sites
History
Idaho
Infrastructure
Japanese Americans
Land transfers
National monuments
Reservoirs
Water Resources Development
Water districts
World War II

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: 
American Falls Reservoir District Number 2 Conveyance Act - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to convey all right, title, and interest in specified land to the: (1) American Falls Reservoir District No. 2 (District) located in Jerome, Lincoln, and Gooding Counties, Idaho; (2) city of Gooding; and (3) Idaho Department of Fish and Game. Requires the District to pay fair market value for the land. 
 
Relieves the United States of liability for damages of any kind relating to the land, unless they result from injury caused by negligence of the United States.
 
Requires the Director of the National Park Service to manage specified land as part of the Minidoka Internment National Monument.
 
Revokes the Department of Interior's previous orders that withdrew specified land from the Gooding Division of the Minidoka project and requires the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to manage the land.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1528-1529)
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1528)
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Federal Election Administration Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-478
Sponsor: Sen. McCain, John [R-AZ]
Introduced: 2007-02-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Advice and consent of the Senate
Authorization
Campaign funds
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Collection of accounts
Confidential communications
Congress
Congressional elections
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Directories
Economics and Public Finance
Election administration
Election candidates
Election fraud
Evidence (Law)
Executive reorganization
Federal Election Commission
Federal budgets
Federal employees
Federal officials
Fines (Penalties)
Freedom of association
Freedom of speech
Government attorneys
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Grievance procedures
Independent regulatory commissions
Injunctions
Inspectors general
Judicial review
Law
Legislation
Liability (Law)
Limitation of actions
Presidential appointments
Presidential elections
Public records
Right of privacy
Sentences (Criminal procedure)
Subpoena
Transfer of employees

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: 
Federal Election Administration Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to replace the Federal Election Commission with the Federal Election Administration (FEA) as an independent establishment to enforce federal campaign finance laws.

Requires enforcement proceedings for violations of campaign finance laws to be conducted before administrative law judges. Allows any final determination made by an administrative law judge to be appealed to the FEA for final agency action, subject to judicial review. Authorizes the FEA to impose civil penalties, issue cease-and-desist orders, and report apparent criminal violations to the appropriate law enforcement authorities. Allows the FEA to conduct audits and field examinations of campaign committees. Prescribes criminal penalties for violations.
 
Directs the Comptroller General to examine and report to Congress on the Attorney General's enforcement of the criminal provisions of federal campaign finance laws.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration.
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1529)
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Antitrust Modernization Commission Extension Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-480
Sponsor: Sen. Kohl, Herb [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-02-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Antitrust law
Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Governmental investigations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: 
Antitrust Modernization Commission Extension Act of 2007 - Amends the Antitrust Modernization Commission Act of 2002 to extend the termination date of the Antitrust Modernization Commission to 60 (currently, 30) days after the Commission's report to the President and Congress.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1530)
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1530)
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Charles Nyaga.

Bill: 110-s-482
Sponsor: Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA]
Introduced: 2007-02-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Provides for the relief of Charles Nyaga.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill for the relief of Salah Naji Sujaa.

Bill: 110-s-483
Sponsor: Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA]
Introduced: 2007-02-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Provides for the relief of Salah Naji Sujaa.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Enhancing Drug Safety and Innovation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-484
Sponsor: Sen. Enzi, Michael B. [R-WY]
Introduced: 2007-02-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Biomedical engineering
Clinical trials
Commerce
Conflict of interests
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Corporations
Data banks
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug approvals
Drug industry
Drug interactions
Drug utilization
Drugs
Executive reorganization
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial disclosure
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Generic drugs
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Health information systems
Labeling
Medical supplies
Medical technology
Nonprofit organizations
Pharmaceutical research
Product development
Product safety
Research centers
Risk
Science, Technology, Communications
Social Welfare
Technological innovations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: 
Enhancing Drug Safety and Innovation Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require an application for approval for a new drug or biological product to include a proposed risk evaluation and mitigation strategy, which must include: (1) labeling for the drug for use by health care providers; (2) submission of reports for the drug; and (3) a statement as to whether the analysis and surveillance are sufficient to assess the serious risks of the drug.
 
Establishes a Drug Safety Oversight Board.
 
 Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish the Reagan-Udall Institute for Applied Biomedical Research as a nonprofit corporation to advance the Critical Path Initiative to modernize medical product development, accelerate innovation, and enhance product safety. Requires the Institute to have a Board of Directors. Allows the Board to coordinate and collaborate with other entities to conduct research, education, and outreach and to modernize the sciences of developing, manufacturing, and evaluating the safety and effectiveness of diagnostics, devices, biologics, and drugs.
 
Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary, acting through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to establish and administer a clinical trial registry database and a clinical trial results database. Requires a responsible part for a clinical trial to submit clinical trial information to the Director for inclusion in the databases.
 
Requires each individual under consideration for a term on an advisory committee providing advice or recommendations to the Secretary regarding FDA activities to disclose industry financial interests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-14
text: Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Hearings held.
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1530-1532)
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Student Loan Sunshine Act

Bill: 110-s-486
Sponsor: Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA]
Introduced: 2007-02-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Advertising
Collection of accounts
College costs
Colleges
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Consumer complaints
Consumer education
Debtor and creditor
Deceptive advertising
Directories
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fees
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Higher education
Inspectors general
Interest rates
Law
Loan defaults
Marketing
Scholarships
School personnel
Signs and symbols
Student aid
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: 
Student Loan Sunshine Act - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require each lender entering into an educational loan arrangement with a postsecondary school to: (1) report annually to the Secretary of Education specified information concerning such arrangement; (2) inform borrowers of their loan options under title IV (Student Assistance) before extending private educational loans for attendance at such school; and (3) be barred by such school from marketing such loans in a manner implying the school's endorsement.
 
Directs the Secretary to report to specified congressional committees on the adequacy of educational loan information provided to borrowers, including a model format for lender use in providing annual loan information to the Secretary and covered schools. 
 
Requires any school that provides prospective borrowers with private educational loan information to: (1) include information on their title IV assistance eligibility; and (2) compare and distinguish private loans from title IV loans.
 
Bars lenders or guarantors of educational loans from offering gifts to school employees or agents. 
 
Directs the Comptroller General to study the effect loan arrangements and lender inducements to schools have on loan terms.
 
Imposes conditions on school maintenance of preferred lender lists, requiring that lenders be listed on the basis of the benefits they provide borrowers.
 
Amends the Truth in Lending Act to require lenders of private educational loans to provide specified information to prospective borrowers and, if the loan equals or exceeds $1,000, notify the relevant school of the proposed loan. Requires such schools to notify the prospective borrower whether and to what extent such loan exceeds the student's attendance costs, after considering other assistance the student has or is eligible to receive.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1534-1536)
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1533-1534)
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Living Kidney Organ Donation Clarification Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-487
Sponsor: Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-02-01 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Crime and Law Enforcement
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Kidney diseases
Medical research
Science, Technology, Communications
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: 
Living Kidney Organ Donation Clarification Act of 2007 - Provides that for purposes of provisions of the National Organ Transplant Act that prohibit the transfer of any human organ for use in human transplantation for valuable consideration, kidney paired donations do not involve such a transfer.

action_date: 2007-02-15
text: 
Living Kidney Organ Donation Clarification Act of 2007 - Provides that for purposes of provisions of the National Organ Transplant Act that prohibit the transfer of any human organ for use in human transplantation for valuable consideration, kidney paired donation does not involve such a transfer.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to the appropriate congressional committees annually on progress toward understanding the long-term health effects of living organ donation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Received in the House.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S2115)
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2007-02-15
text: Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions discharged by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Introduced in Senate
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site Boundary Revision Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-488
Sponsor: Sen. Dole, Elizabeth [R-NC]
Introduced: 2007-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Authors and authorship
Commemorations
Historic sites
History
Land transfers
North Carolina
Poetry

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-05
text: 
Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site Boundary Revision Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to acquire from willing sellers not more than 115 acres of land (including any improvements to the land) or interest (including conservation easements) in land contiguous to the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site for inclusion in the Site. 
 
Permits up to five acres of such acquired land to be used for: (1) a visitor and education center; and (2) a visitor parking area.
 
Instructs the Secretary, upon the acquisition of any land or interest in land under this Act, to revise the boundary of the Site to reflect the acquisition. Requires any land acquired under this Act to be administered by the Secretary as part of the Site.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-12
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Senate Subcommittee on National Parks. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 110-158.
action_date: 2007-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
Lester Nichols Presque Isle Light Station Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-490
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-02-05 in the Senate
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Commemorations
Federal-local relations
Government Operations and Politics
Historic sites
History
Lenses
Lighthouses and lightships
Michigan

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-05
text: 
Lester Nichols Presque Isle Light Station Act of 2007 - Directs the Commandant of the Coast Guard to modify, in compliance with the Omnibus Consolidated Appropriations Act, 1997, the 2004 Agreement for Outgoing Loans (AOL) with Presque Isle Township, Michigan, in order to provide for return of the Historic Third Order Fresnel Lens to the lantern room atop the Presque Isle Light Station Lighthouse.
 
Declares that: (1) the United States shall retain ownership of the Lens; and (2) the active aid to navigation at the Lighthouse, together with associated electronic and lighthouse equipment, shall continue to be operated and maintained by the United States within the Lens.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-05
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
action_date: 2007-02-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1578)
action_date: 2007-02-05
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to clarify the rules of origin for certain textile and apparel products.

Bill: 110-s-491
Sponsor: Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY]
Introduced: 2007-02-06 in the Senate
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Clothing
Import restrictions
Tariff
Textile fabrics

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: 
Amends the Uruguay Round Agreements Act with respect to the rules of origin for certain textile and apparel products. 
 
Makes such amendments applicable to goods entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after the date that is 15 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-02-06
text: Introduced in Senate