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Buy American Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-581
Sponsor: Sen. Feingold, Russell D. [D-WI]
Introduced: 2007-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Buy American
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost accounting
Electronic government information
Export controls
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Government contractors
Government procurement
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Internet
Manufacturing industries
Science, Technology, Communications
Web sites

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: 
Buy American Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Buy American Act to: (1) prohibit federal agencies from determining that it would not be in the public interest to enter into a contract subject to Buy American requirements after a solicitation of offers notice for such contract is published; and (2) apply Buy American requirements without regard to whether products to be acquired are for use outside the United States if they are not needed on an urgent basis or if they are acquired on a regular basis. Requires before a contract is entered in the latter type of case an analysis of the difference in costs of such products from manufacturers inside and outside the United States.

Requires federal agencies to: (1) give preference in the procurement process to a company that manufactures the solicited product in the United States, if such company's bid is substantially the same as a bid made by a non-U.S. manufacturer, or such company is the only one that manufactures the product in the United States; and (2) report for FY2007-FY2011 to specified congressional committees on the amount of agency acquisitions from entities that manufacture products outside the United States (excepts intelligence agencies).

 Prohibits an agency head from determining that articles to be procured are not available from domestic sources without first determining that domestic production cannot be initiated to meet procurement needs, and that a comparable product is not available from a company in the United States.

Defines a product as made &quot;substantially all&quot; from domestic components when the cost of the product's domestic components exceeds 75% of the cost of all the product's components. 

Requires the Comptroller General to report to Congress with recommendations for determining whether an acquisition would involve unreasonable cost and be inconsistent with the public interest for purposes of applying waivers of Buy American requirements. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1964-1965)
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1963-1964)
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-582
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2007-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Emergency Management
Equipment and supplies
Fire prevention
Income tax
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Fire Sprinkler Incentive Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to classify automatic fire sprinkler systems as five-year depreciable property.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1965)
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1965)
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Rural Teacher Retention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-583
Sponsor: Sen. Salazar, Ken [D-CO]
Introduced: 2007-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Congressional reporting requirements
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational planning
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Hawaiians
Housing and Community Development
Illiteracy
Indian education
Labor and Employment
Migrant education
Minorities
Native Americans
Recruiting of employees
Rural education
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Teacher salaries
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: 
Rural Teacher Retention Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a five-year pilot program awarding competitive grants to no more than 10 states to enable them to award salary bonuses to highly qualified teachers or highly qualified special education teachers who teach, or commit to teach, for at least three academic years, in an elementary or secondary school served by the same rural local educational agency (LEA), including one that serves a high number or percentage of children who are Native Hawaiian.
 
Awards such grants on the basis of the needs of a state's rural LEAs for recruiting and retaining such teachers. Requires that, in determining such needs, the Secretary consider: (1) a rural LEA's eligibility for assistance under part B (Rural Education Initiative) of title IV of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; (2) a rural LEA's service of low-income, limited English proficient, migrant, Indian, or disabled students; and (3) the state's long-term plans for recruiting and retaining such teachers in its rural LEAs.
 
Requires the Secretary to track and assess the implementation and effectiveness of each project funded under this Act..


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1966)
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Community Restoration and Revitalization Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-584
Sponsor: Sen. Lincoln, Blanche L. [D-AR]
Introduced: 2007-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Building construction
Collection of accounts
Commemorations
Commerce
Condominium (Housing)
Depressed areas
Economics and Public Finance
Historic sites
History
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Leases
Low-income housing
Maintenance and repair
Office buildings
Rental housing
Residential rehabilitation
Tax credits
Tax-exempt organizations
Valuation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: 
Community Restoration and Revitalization Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow an increased rehabilitation tax credit for certain low-income buildings; (2) allow a basis reduction adjustment for property eligible for the credit; (3) increase the credit for certain smaller buildings; (4) allow property eligible for the credit to be used for lodging purposes; (5) modify placed-in-service rules for credit property; (6) modify qualification rules for credit property that is tax-exempt use property; (7) increase the credit for buildings in high cost areas; and (8) exempt certain condominium transactions from rehabilitation tax credit recapture requirements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Native American $1 Coin Act

Bill: 110-s-585
Sponsor: Sen. Dorgan, Byron L. [D-ND]
Introduced: 2007-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Coins and coinage
Congressional reporting requirements
History
Minorities
Native Americans

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: 
Native American $1 Coin Act - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue $1 coins in commemoration of Native Americans and the important contributions made by Indian tribes and individual Native Americans to the development of the United States and the history of the United States. Requires the issuance of such coins during each year to be emblematic of one important Native American or Native American contribution. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Model T Ford Automobile Commemorative Coin Act

Bill: 110-s-587
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI]
Introduced: 2007-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Anniversaries
Arts, Culture, Religion
Automobile industry
Automobiles
Coins and coinage
Commerce
Copper
Exhibitions
Finance and Financial Sector
Foundations
Historic sites
History
Michigan
Silver
Social Welfare
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: 
Model T Ford Automobile Commemorative Coin Act - Instructs the Secretary of the Treasury to mint and issue, in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Model T Ford Automobile, up to 500,000 $1 coins emblematic of the Model T Ford and the assembly line.
 
Subjects coin sales to a surcharge of $10 per coin.
 
Requires specified distributions of surcharges to: (1) the Automobile National Heritage Area Partnership Inc. for creating an endowment for national Model T educational programs; and (2) the Edison Institute (also known as &quot;The Henry Ford&quot;), in Dearborn, Michigan, a National Historic Landmark, for creating an endowment for educational programs associated with the Model T Ford Automobile.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-588
Sponsor: Sen. Nelson, Bill [D-FL]
Introduced: 2007-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Medical residents
Medicare
Osteopathy and osteopaths
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: 
Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2007 - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to increase, over five cost reporting periods, the Medicare caps on the total number of full-time equivalent residents in the field of allopathic or osteopathic medicine (graduate medical education (GME) positions) for states with a shortage of residents.
 
Requires the aggregate number of such increases for a state to be at least 15, but no more than the state resident cap increase.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1968-1969)
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1968)
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
A bill to provide for the transfer of certain Federal property to the United States Paralympics, Incorporated, a subsidiary of the United States Olympic Committee.

Bill: 110-s-589
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2007-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Colorado
Disabled
Land transfers
Olympic games
Sports and Recreation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: 
Directs the General Services Administration (GSA) to transfer the real property located at 1520 Willamette Avenue, Colorado Springs, Colorado (including buildings and improvements) to the United States Paralympics, Incorporated, for $1 million.

action_date: 2007-11-07
text: 
Directs the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to offer to convey, by quitclaim deed, the real property located at 1520 Willamette Avenue, Colorado Springs, Colorado (including buildings and improvements) to the United States Olympic Committee. 
 
Require such conveyance to be in accordance with a fair market value appraisal.
 
Makes the Olympic Committee responsible for all real estate transaction costs associated with the conveyance.
 
Subjects the conveyance to the condition that the Olympic Committee agree to operate, maintain, and manage the property for the benefit of the United States Paralympics program.
 
Authorizes the Administrator to require that any conveyance under this Act be subject to such additional terms and conditions considered to be appropriate to protect U.S. interests.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-11-13
text: Star Print ordered on the bill.
action_date: 2007-11-07
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 474.
action_date: 2007-11-07
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-223.
action_date: 2007-11-07
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 110-223.
action_date: 2007-09-20
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works.
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1969-1970)
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Securing America's Energy Independence Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-590
Sponsor: Sen. Smith, Gordon H. [R-OR]
Introduced: 2007-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Air conditioning
Commerce
Depreciation and amortization
Energy
Energy conservation
Energy efficiency
Energy storage
Fuel cells
Heating
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Investment tax credit
Lighting
Minimum tax
Solar energy
Tax credits
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: 
Securing America's Energy Independence Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend through 2016: (1) the energy tax credit for solar energy property and qualified fuel cell property; and (2) the tax credit for residential energy efficient property expenditures. Allows such credits to be applied against alternative minimum tax liability. 

Expands the definition of &quot;energy property&quot; for purposes of the tax credit to include certain equipment which uses solar energy to generate or store excess electricity.

Provides for a special credit amount for solar photovoltaic energy property and residential energy efficient property based upon kilowatt capacity.

Allows a tax credit for the full amount of qualified photovoltaic property expenditures (currently, limited to 30%).

Allows accelerated depreciation (three-year recovery period) for solar energy and fuel cell property.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1970)
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Food Stamp Personal Savings and Investment Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-591
Sponsor: Sen. Chambliss, Saxby [R-GA]
Introduced: 2007-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education savings accounts
Food stamps
Higher education
Indexing (Economic policy)
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: 
 Food Stamp Personal Savings and Investment Act of 2007 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to provide an annual financial resource inflation adjustment for purposes of household food stamp program eligibility.
 
Excludes from countable financial resources specified retirement and education accounts. (Authorizes the exclusion of other such programs.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1970-1971)
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
GoMe Act

Bill: 110-s-592
Sponsor: Sen. Collins, Susan M. [R-ME]
Introduced: 2007-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Manufacturing industries
Research and development tax credit
Science, Technology, Communications
Tax credits
Tax shelters
Taxation of foreign income
Trade adjustment assistance
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: 
Growing Our Manufacturing Employment Act or the GoMe Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow certain employers with domestic production gross receipts in the current and preceding taxable year a manufacturer's jobs tax credit through 2009 for annual increases in wages paid to their employees and to employees eligible for benefits under the Trade Adjustment Act; (2) extend through 2012 the tax credit for increasing research expenses; and (3) set forth rules for the application of the economic substance doctrine.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5529)
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1971-1972)
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Services for Ending Long-Term Homelessness Act

Bill: 110-s-593
Sponsor: Sen. Burr, Richard [R-NC]
Introduced: 2007-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Affordable housing
Case management
Community health services
Congregate housing
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuum of care
Counseling
Crime and Law Enforcement
Crime prevention
Dental care
Disabled
Drug abuse
Drug abuse treatment
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Evaluation research (Social action programs)
Families
Family services
Federal aid to housing
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Grants-in-aid
Health
Health education
Homeless
Housing and Community Development
Labor and Employment
Management information systems
Mental health services
Mental illness
Nonprofit organizations
Parent and child
Performance measurement
Personal budgets
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: 
Services for Ending Long-Term Homelessness Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Administrator of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, to design national strategies for providing services in supportive housing that will assist in ending chronic homelessness and to implement programs that address chronic homelessness.
 
Requires the Secretary to make matching grants to eligible entities to provide services that promote recovery and self-sufficiency and that address barriers to housing stability to chronically homeless individuals in, or who are scheduled to become residents of, permanent supportive housing and to other individuals and families who have voluntarily chosen to seek other housing opportunities after a period of tenancy in supportive housing.
 
Directs the Secretary to require grantees to report data regarding the performance outcomes of projects carried out under this Act, which shall include measuring and reporting specific performance outcomes related to the long-term goals of: (1) increasing stability within the community for people who have been chronically homeless; and (2) decreasing recurrence of periods of homelessness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5633-5634)
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-s-594
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2007-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Arms sales
Bombs
Congress and foreign policy
Congress and military policy
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Government Operations and Politics
President and foreign policy

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: 
Cluster Munitions Civilian Protection Act of 2007 - Places specified restrictions on the sale, transfer, or use of cluster munitions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1974)
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1972-1974)
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate
Toxic Right-to-Know Protection Act

Bill: 110-s-595
Sponsor: Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ]
Introduced: 2007-02-14 in the Senate
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Bioaccumulation
Chemicals
Commerce
Environmental Protection Agency
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Industrial pollution
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: 
Toxic Right-to-Know Protection Act - Amends the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 to repeal provisions authorizing the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to modify the frequency of submitting toxic chemical release forms.
 
Requires the Administrator to establish the eligibility threshold regarding the use of a form A certification statement under the Toxics Release Inventory Program at not greater than 500 pounds for nonpersistent bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals. Prohibits the use of such form with respect to any chemical of special concern identified by the Administrator. 

action_date: 2007-12-19
text: 

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

 
Toxic Right-to-Know Protection Act - Amends the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act of 1986 to repeal provisions authorizing the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to modify the frequency of submitting toxic chemical release forms.
 
Requires the Administrator to establish the eligibility threshold regarding the use of a form A certification statement under the Toxics Release Inventory Program at not greater than 500 pounds for nonpersistent bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals. Prohibits the use of such form with respect to any chemical of special concern identified by the Administrator. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-12-19
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 552.
action_date: 2007-12-19
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer without amendment. With written report No. 110-253. Minority views filed.
action_date: 2007-12-19
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Reported by Senator Boxer without amendment. With written report No. 110-253. Minority views filed.
action_date: 2007-07-31
text: Committee on Environment and Public Works. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1975)
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1974-1975)
action_date: 2007-02-14
text: Introduced in Senate