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Path to Success: Gang Prevention through Community Partnerships Act

Bill: 110-hr-3168
Sponsor: Rep. Hastings, Alcee L. [D-FL-23]
Introduced: 2007-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Apprenticeship
College costs
Community colleges
Community-based corrections
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Economics and Public Finance
Educational planning
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Federal aid to education
Gangs
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Juvenile delinquency
Labor and Employment
Mentoring
Scholarships
Secondary education
Transportation and Public Works
Travel costs
Vocational and technical education
Youth violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: 
Path to Success: Gang Prevention through Community Partnerships Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Education to award grants to community colleges to establish partnerships with juvenile detention centers and secure juvenile justice residential facilities to provide assistance, services, and education to individuals age 16 through 19 who have served or are serving time in juvenile detention facilities for a gang-related offense who reenter the community and pursue: (1) a secondary education graduation certificate, a general equivalency diploma (GED), or equivalent certificate or diploma; (2) a certificate of completion for a specialized area of study; or (3) an associate's degree.
 
Requires such education programs to establish a uniquely designed education plan for each individual program participant that requires the individual to receive at least a secondary education certificate or diploma in order to complete the program successfully.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1612)
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Disaster Voting Reform Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3169
Sponsor: Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2007-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Absentee voting
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Election administration
Emergency Management
Evacuation of civilians
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Motor vehicle registration
Transportation and Public Works
Voter registration
Voting machines

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: 
Disaster Voting Reform Act of 2007 - Directs the Election Assistance Commission to make grants to each eligible state to: (1) restore and replace supplies, materials, and equipment used in the administration of elections which were damaged as a result of a major natural disaster; and (2) conduct voter outreach and education for voters displaced as a result of a major natural disaster. Requires preference for states with satellite voting sites.
 
Grants an eligible disaster evacuee the right to be treated in the same manner as an absent uniform services voter and overseas voter under the Uniform and Overseas Citizen Absentee Voting Act. Deems such an individual entitled to vote by absentee ballot under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and the Help America Vote Act of 2002.
 
Requires each motor vehicle authority and each designated voter registration agency in a state to take necessary steps to notify individuals to whom services are provided of the protections of this Act and the requirements for obtaining those protections.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on House Administration.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Capital Gains and Estate Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3170
Sponsor: Rep. Mitchell, Harry E. [D-AZ-5]
Introduced: 2007-07-24 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Capital gains tax
Economics and Public Finance
Estate tax
Families
Gift tax
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Married people
Survivors' benefits
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Tax rates

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: 
Capital Gains and Estate Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Makes permanent the reduction in capital gains tax rates (from 20 to 15%) enacted by the Jobs and Growth Tax Relief and Reconciliation Act of 2003.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) restore the unified credit against gift tax liability; (2) provide for annual increases in the estate tax exclusion amount between 2010 and 2015 and establish a permanent exclusion amount of $5 million for 2015 and thereafter; (3) provide for an inflation adjustment to the estate tax exclusion amount after 2015; (4) reduce estate tax rate brackets; and (5) allow a surviving spouse to use the unused unified estate tax credit of a deceased spouse. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1618)
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-24
text: Introduced in House
Fast Track for Healthy Children Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3171
Sponsor: Rep. Kagen, Steve [D-WI-8]
Introduced: 2007-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 
Fast Track for Healthy Children Act of 2007 - Amends titles XIX (Medicaid) and XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) to give states the option to rely on findings from an Express Lane agency to conduct simplified Medicaid and SCHIP eligibility determinations for children. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Improving Emergency Medical Care and Response Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3173
Sponsor: Rep. Waxman, Henry A. [D-CA-30]
Introduced: 2007-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Economic impact statements
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Medical research
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 
Improving Emergency Medical Care and Response Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting though the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response, to award matching contracts or competitive grants to support demonstration programs that design, implement, and evaluate innovative models of regionalized, comprehensive, and accountable emergency care systems. Requires the Secretary to give priority to entities that serve a medically underserved population.

Requires the Secretary, acting through the Assistant Secretary, to enter into a contract with an academic institution or other entity to conduct an independent evaluation of the demonstration programs funded under this Act.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) support federal programs involved in improving the emergency care system to expand and accelerate research in emergency medical care systems and emergency medicine; and (2) support research to determine the estimated economic impact of, and savings that result from, the implementation of coordinated emergency care systems.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Equal Justice for Our Military Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3174
Sponsor: Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]
Introduced: 2007-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Appellate courts
Appellate procedure
Armed Forces and National Security
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Jurisdiction
Supreme Court

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 
Equal Justice for Our Military Act of 2007 - Amends the federal judicial code to allow for review by writ of certiorari of certain cases denied relief or review by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.

action_date: 2008-09-27
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Equal Justice for Our Military Act of 2007 - Amends the federal judicial code to allow for review by writ of certiorari of certain cases denied relief or review by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-10-02
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2008-09-29
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2008-09-27
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2008-09-27
text: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H10263)
action_date: 2008-09-27
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H10263)
action_date: 2008-09-27
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 3174.
action_date: 2008-09-27
text: Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H10263-10264)
action_date: 2008-09-27
text: Mr. Conyers moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1618)
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in House
International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3175
Sponsor: Rep. McCollum, Betty [D-MN-4]
Introduced: 2007-07-25 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Child abuse
Child sexual abuse
Children's rights
Church and social problems
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Crime and Law Enforcement
Developing countries
Economic assistance
Families
Human rights
International agencies
Marriage
Nongovernmental organizations
Religion
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 
International Protecting Girls by Preventing Child Marriage Act of 2007 - Authorizes the President to provide assistance, including through multilateral, nongovernmental, and faith-based organizations, to prevent child marriage in developing countries and to promote the educational, health, economic, social, and legal empowerment of girls and women. Sets forth priority assistance criteria.
 
Directs the President, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to establish a multi-year strategy to prevent child marriage in developing countries and to promote the empowerment of girls at risk of child marriage, including by addressing the unique needs and potentials of eight to 18 year old girls. 
 
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to require that Department of State country reports on human rights practices include a description of the status of child marriage for countries with specified rates of child marriage. 
 
Defines &quot;child marriage.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in House
SCHIP Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3176
Sponsor: Rep. Barton, Joe [R-TX-6]
Introduced: 2007-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Authorization
Citizenship
Department of Health and Human Services
Employee health benefits
Families
Federal aid to child health services
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Health planning
Immigration
Income
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Labor and Employment
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Poor children
Social Welfare
Wealth
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 
SCHIP Reauthorization and Reform Act of 2007 - Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act to require the state SCHIP plan to specify how it will achieve coverage for 90% of targeted low-income children.
 
Prohibits SCHIP payments for children with family income above 250% of the poverty line. Sets forth special rules for payment for children with family income above 200% of the poverty line.
 
Provides for: (1) standardization of income determinations; (2) the application of citizenship documentation requirements; (3) an increased federal matching rate for citizenship documentation enforcement under Medicaid and SCHIP; and (4) temporary increase in federal matching rate for Medicaid and SCHIP administrative costs.
 
Sets limitations on eligibility based on substantial net assets.

Provides for easing administrative barriers to state cooperation with employer-sponsored insurance coverage.
 
Requires the offering of alternative coverage options.
 
Revises requirements for allotments to the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
 
Prohibits redistribution of unused allotments.
 
Reauthorizes SCHIP through FY2012.
 



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Local Education Authority Returns Now Act

Bill: 110-hr-3177
Sponsor: Rep. Garrett, Scott [R-NJ-5]
Introduced: 2007-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Income tax
Secondary education
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 
Local Education Authority Returns Now Act - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to make an annual determination of states that have chosen to opt-out of K-12 education grant programs.

Requires the Secretary of Education to determine credits due to states as opt-out state education amounts.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers in states that opt-out a refundable tax credit for a share of the opt-out amount creditable to such states.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-10-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H11302-11303)
action_date: 2007-09-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-09-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10425-10426, H10427-10428, H10428, H10429, H10430-10431)
action_date: 2007-09-06
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10204-10205)
action_date: 2007-09-05
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H10129-10130)
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in House
To limit the length of deployment of members of the Armed Forces for Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Bill: 110-hr-3178
Sponsor: Rep. Shays, Christopher [R-CT-4]
Introduced: 2007-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Army
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional oversight
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Marines
Middle East and North Africa
Military occupation
Military operations
Military personnel
National Guard

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 
Requires that, commencing 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the deployment of a unit or individual of the Armed Forces for Operation Iraqi Freedom shall be limited as follows: (1) in the case of a unit or individual of the Army (including the Army National Guard or Army Reserve), the unit or individual may not be deployed, or continued or extended on deployment, for more than 12 consecutive months; and (2) in the case of a unit or individual of the Marine Corps (including the Marine Corps Reserve), the unit or individual may not be deployed, or continued or extended on deployment, for more than seven consecutive months.
 
Authorizes the President to waive the limitation in the event of a requirement for the use of military force in time of national emergency, following consultation with the congressional defense committees.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Whistleblower Recovery Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3180
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2007-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Government Operations and Politics
Jurisdiction
Labor and Employment
Parties to actions
Qui tam actions
Whistle blowing

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 
Whistleblower Recovery Act of 2007 - Amends the False Claims Act regarding a federal civil action (&quot;whistle blower&quot; or qui tam action) brought by private persons.
 
Revises the definition of &quot;original source&quot; relating to the requirement that, for any court to have jurisdiction over such an action based upon the public disclosure of allegations or transactions in a criminal, civil, or administrative hearing, in a congressional, administrative, or Government Accountability Office report, hearing, audit, or investigation, the person bringing the action (if not the Attorney General) be an original source of the information.
 
 
 Redefines &quot;original source&quot; as an individual who has direct and independent knowledge of information that the individual has voluntarily provided to the government before filing an action that is the basis for either: (1) the allegations or transactions; or (2) public disclosure of the allegations or transactions.
 
(Thus allows an individual who publicly discloses allegations or transactions of false claims to recover a portion of any awards following legal proceedings under the False Claims Act for those public disclosures, even though the individual does not know the precise way in which the wrongdoing occurs.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1622-1623)
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in House
Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forests Land Exchange Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3181
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2007-07-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Boundaries
Colorado
Land transfers
National forests

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 
Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forests Land Exchange Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Agriculture, upon receipt of acceptable title to specified land in Boulder county, Colorado, between the communities of Boulder and Nederland (the non-federal land) offered by the Sugar Loaf Fire Protection District to the United States, to convey to the District, in exchange for such non-federal land, National Forest System land within the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forests in Colorado (the federal lands). 
 
Permits the District, pending completion of the land exchange, to commence modification of the fire stations on the federal land.
 
Provides for the non-federal land to become part of the Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forests and modifies the boundary of such National Forests to incorporate such land. 
 
Revokes any public orders withdrawing any of the federal lands from appropriation or disposal under the public land laws to the extent necessary to permit conveyance of such lands. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1621-1622)
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in House
U.S. Participation in Cuban Energy Exploration Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3182
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2007-07-25 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Caribbean area
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Cuba
Energy
Export controls
Exports
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Gas in submerged lands
Import restrictions
Imports
Latin America
Law
Licenses
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Petroleum in submerged lands
Prospecting
Right to travel
Territorial waters

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: 
U.S. Participation in Cuban Energy Exploration Act of 2007 - Authorizes U.S. persons to: (1) engage in the exploration for and extraction of hydrocarbon resources from any portion of a foreign exclusive economic zone that is contiguous to the U.S. exclusive economic zone; (2) export without license authority all equipment necessary for such activities; and (3) import such extracted hydrocarbon resources into the United States.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to authorize under a general license specified travel-related transactions for travel to, from, or within Cuba in connection with such activities.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-30
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
action_date: 2007-07-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1624-1625)
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-07-25
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-25
text: Introduced in House