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Pigford Claims Remedy Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3073
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-14]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Agricultural credit
Blacks
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil actions and liability
Claims
Consent decrees
Damages
Farmers
Finance and Financial Sector
Foreclosure
Government Operations and Politics
Government liability
Government paperwork
Law
Limitation of actions
Minorities
Racial discrimination
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
Pigford Claims Remedy Act of 2007 - Declares that any Pigford claimant (relating to a racial discrimination action against the Department of Agriculture) who has not previously obtained a determination on the merits of a Pigford claim may, in a civil action, obtain that determination. 

Asserts that it is Congress's intent that this Act be liberally construed so as to effectuate its remedial purpose of giving a full determination on the merits for each denied Pigford claim. 

Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to provide a claimant with a report on farm credit loans made within the claimant's county or adjacent county during a specified period which shall contain information on all accepted applicants (but without any personally identifiable information), including: (1) the applicant's race; (2) the application and loan decision dates; and (3) the location of the office making the loan decision. 

Sets forth provisions respecting: (1) expedited claim resolution; and (2) foreclosure limitation. 

Defines: (1) &quot;Pigford claimant&quot; as an individual who previously submitted a late-filing request under the consent decree in the case of 
Pigford v. Glickman 
(1999); and (2) &quot;Pigford claim&quot; as a discrimination complaint as defined and documented by such consent decree.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry.
action_date: 2007-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on Agriculture, 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: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow States to count certain students formerly identified as limited English proficient as being within the limited English proficient subgroup, and certain students formerly identified as students with disabilities as being within the students with disabilities subgroup.

Bill: 110-hr-3075
Sponsor: Rep. Boozman, John [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Illiteracy
Literacy programs
Secondary education
Special education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow states, when determining whether disabled or limited English proficient student subgroups are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward state academic performance standards, to include in such subgroups students who are no longer identified as disabled or limited English proficient but who were so identified during any of the preceding three school years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow States to adopt alternate and modified standards for students with disabilities.

Bill: 110-hr-3076
Sponsor: Rep. Boozman, John [R-AR-3]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Secondary education
Special education
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow states to adopt alternate and modified academic performance standards for disabled students who, consistent with their individualized education programs, should be given opportunities to achieve grade-level proficiency beyond a given school year. Requires such modified standards to reflect ambitious annual academic achievement goals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Foreign Seafood Safety Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3077
Sponsor: Rep. Jones, Walter B., Jr. [R-NC-3]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Food safety
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Governmental investigations
Import restrictions
Law
Licenses
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Seafood

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
Foreign Seafood Safety Act of 2007 - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to prohibit the importation into the United States of any seafood or seafood product capable of use as human food from any foreign country unless: (1) the country applies for, and the Secretary of Health and Human Services issues, a certification finding that the country maintains seafood safety and inspection programs that use reliable analytical methods and that are at least as protective of human health as U.S. programs; and (2) such certification remains in effect.

Directs the Secretary to: (1) periodically review such certifications; (2) revoke such certifications if the country involved is not maintaining seafood safety programs that meet the standards described in this Act; and (3) inspect individual establishments to ensure that the seafood safety programs of the foreign country involved meet such standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
America's Brownfield Cleanup Act

Bill: 110-hr-3080
Sponsor: Rep. Turner, Michael R. [R-OH-3]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Brownfields
Commerce
Compensation (Law)
Environmental Protection
Hazardous wastes
Income tax
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Tax credits
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
America's Brownfield Cleanup Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a business tax credit for 50% of expenditures for the abatement or control of any hazardous substance, the demolition of any structure, the removal and disposal of property, and the reconstruction of utilities at certain contaminated sites.
 
Allows a tax exclusion for certain contributions made for the remediation of contaminated sites. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Fairness for Homeowners Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3081
Sponsor: Rep. Ellison, Keith [D-MN-5]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Housing and Community Development
Subjects: Commerce
Consumer credit
Consumer protection
Counseling
Debtor and creditor
Finance and Financial Sector
Finance charges
Housing finance
Insurance premiums
Mortgage banks
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Mortgage interest rates
Mortgages
Property insurance
Property tax
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
Fairness for Homeowners Act of 2007 - Amends the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit any creditor or mortgage broker from making, providing, or arranging for any consumer credit transaction secured by a consumer's principal dwelling without verifying the consumer's reasonable ability to make the scheduled payments of principal, interest (including variable interest), real estate taxes, homeowner's insurance, assessments, and mortgage insurance premiums.
 
Prescribes criteria for determining the reasonable ability to make such payments.
 
Prohibits steering (arranging for a lower investment grade credit transaction if the consumer qualifies for a higher investment grade transaction) and prepayment penalties for adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) that are not jumbo mortgages.
 
Limits financed points, finance charges, and fees to 5% of a transaction's principal, unless the transaction is ensured or guaranteed by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or the Farmers Home Administration.
 
Specifies duties of agency for mortgage brokers acting to obtain or arrange for any consumer credit transaction secured by the consumer's principal dwelling.
 
Requires creditors and mortgage brokers to obtain independent verification that a borrower seeking to refinance a special mortgage has received counseling on the transaction's advisability. Defines &quot;special mortgage&quot; as one that: (1) was originated, subsidized, funded, or guaranteed by or through a state, tribal, or local government, or nonprofit organization; and (2) bears one or more specified nonstandard payment terms which substantially benefit the consumer.
 
Prescribes minimum financial requirements for mortgage brokers.
 
Excludes reverse mortgages from coverage by this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Montgomery GI Bill Degree Extension Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3082
Sponsor: Rep. Carson, Julia [D-IN-7]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Education
Higher education
Veterans' education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
Montgomery GI Bill Degree Extension Act of 2007 - Extends the time limitation (generally ten years from the original eligibility date) for the use of educational assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill all-volunteer force educational assistance program, in the case of an individual who has completed at least 50% of the credit or time requirements leading to a degree or certificate before the last day of the ten-year period, to the earlier of: (1) the date on which the individual completes such requirements; or (2) two years after the last day of the ten-year period. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-07-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, 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: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Tailpipe Pollution Standards Act

Bill: 110-hr-3083
Sponsor: Rep. Inslee, Jay [D-WA-1]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Motor vehicle pollution control
Standards
State laws
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
Tailpipe Pollution Standards Act - Amends the Clean Air Act to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue to the governor of each applicable state, not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act, a decision on each request for a waiver of preemption that: (1) has been submitted by the state; and (2) is pending as of the date of enactment of this Act.
 
Requires the Administrator to issue to the governor of the state a decision on whether to grant a waiver of preemption for a request that is submitted after the date of enactment of this Act not later than 180 days after the date on which the Administrator receives the request.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Skin Cancer Prevention, Education, and Consumer Right-To-Know Act

Bill: 110-hr-3084
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Advertising
Commerce
Consumer protection
Deceptive advertising
Department of Health and Human Services
Drug industry
Drugs
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Health education
Labeling
Law
Preventive medicine
Product safety
Public service advertising
Signs and symbols
Skin cancer
Standards
Sun
Ultraviolet radiation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
Skin Cancer Prevention, Education, and Consumer Right-To-Know Act - Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to deem a drug that is a sunscreen product whose labeling violates this Act to be adulterated.

Prohibits the labeling of a drug that is a sunscreen product that fails to meet the standards adopted under this Act from: (1) describing the product using the term &quot;broad-spectrum&quot;; or (2) including a specified symbol adopted to indicate broad-spectrum.

Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to adopt: (1) a standard for broad-spectrum protection in sunscreen products; and (2) an easily recognized symbol for inclusion in the labeling of sunscreen products meeting such standards.

Sets forth minimum standards that the Secretary shall adopt for such broad-spectrum protection, including a minimum ratio of UVA protection factor to sun protection factor, a minimum level of UVB radiation protection, and specified truth in labeling requirements. Requires sun protection factors to be measured using standardized, reproducible testing methods that take photo-degradation into account.

Requires the Secretary to implement an education campaign identifying the risks posed by sun exposure without the use of a sunscreen providing broad-spectrum protection.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Lead Poisoning Reduction Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3085
Sponsor: Rep. Slaughter, Louise McIntosh [D-NY-28]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Child health
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Contractors
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Employee training
Environmental Protection Agency
Families
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Governmental investigations
Health
Labor and Employment
Law
Lead poisoning
Licenses
Maintenance and repair
Paints and varnishes
Preschool education
School buildings
Standards

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
Lead Poisoning Reduction Act of 2007 - Amends the Toxic Substances Control Act to establish a Select Group on Lead Exposure. Requires the Group to: (1) conduct a study of state, tribal, and local programs to protect children from exposure to lead at child-occupied facilities constructed before January 1, 1978; (2) develop baseline standards such programs must meet to receive a grant under this Act; and (3) develop a model program to protect children from exposure to lead at such facilities that can be adopted by state, local, and tribal governments.
 
Requires the model program to meet or exceed standards that require facilities to be notified as soon as practicable after a child is diagnosed with lead poisoning and to be tested for the presence of lead upon receiving such notification.
 
Directs the Administrator to: (1) establish a program to provide grants to assist such facilities in carrying out activities to protect children from lead exposure; (2) promulgate regulations requiring such facilities to test applicable exposure pathways for lead, prohibiting states and Indian tribes from issuing a license to such facilities until the testing is complete and the exposure to lead is eliminated, and requiring all child-occupied facilities to eliminate the risk of exposure to lead through applicable exposure pathways; and (3) apply regulations governing lead-based paint activities to contractors and workers engaged in the renovation, remodeling, or painting of such facilitates and to establish a program to provide information and training about those activities to them.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1567)
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide, in the case of certain widows and widowers whose judicial survivors' annuities are terminated on account of remarriage, for the restoration of benefits upon the dissolution of the remarriage.

Bill: 110-hr-3086
Sponsor: Rep. Snyder, Vic [D-AR-2]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Law
Subjects: Annuities
Death
Divorce
Families
Judicial compensation
Labor and Employment
Marriage
Survivors' benefits
Widowers
Widows
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
Amends the federal judicial code with respect to certain widows and widowers whose judicial survivors' annuities are terminated on account of remarriage before age 55.
 
 Requires restoration of such benefits, at the same rate, upon the dissolution of the remarriage by death, divorce, or annulment, if specified requirements are met.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-10
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Long-Term Care Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3088
Sponsor: Rep. Terry, Lee [R-NE-2]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Employee benefit plans
Finance and Financial Sector
Health
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Insurance premiums
Labor and Employment
Long-term care insurance
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
Long-Term Care Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow an exclusion from gross income of distributions from individual retirement accounts and other employee benefit plans used to pay long-term care insurance premiums.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Patient and Pharmacy Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3090
Sponsor: Rep. Wilson, Charles A. [D-OH-6]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulatory care
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Drug traffic
Drugs
Forgery
Health care fraud
Medicaid
Security measures
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
Patient and Pharmacy Protection Act of 2007 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act, as amended by the U.S. Troop Readiness, Veterans' Care, Katrina Recovery, and Iraq Accountability Appropriations Act, 2007, to limit to Controlled Substances Act schedule II narcotics the use of tamper-resistant prescription pads required under the Medicaid program for payment of amounts expended for covered outpatient drugs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
Patsy T. Mink Fellowship Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-3091
Sponsor: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Black colleges
College teachers
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to education
Graduate education
Higher education
Minorities
Minority education
Scholarships
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Women
Women's education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: 
Patsy T. Mink Fellowship Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to establish the Patsy T. Mink Fellowship program.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to make grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) to award fellowships to minorities and women seeking terminal master's degrees or doctorate degrees in academic areas in which such individuals are underrepresented for the purpose of entering the higher education professoriate.
 
 Requires fellowship recipients to teach, for a period equivalent to their fellowship period, at IHEs with graduate programs.
 
Directs the Secretary, to the extent practical, to provide at least 50% of the grant funds to minority-serving IHEs or consortia that include such IHEs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1548)
For the relief of Kimberly Ruth.

Bill: 110-hr-3092
Sponsor: Rep. Snyder, Vic [D-AR-2]
Introduced: 2007-07-18 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Provides for the relief of Kimberly Ruth.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-08-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-07-18
text: Introduced in House