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Savings for Seniors Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-581
Sponsor: Rep. Blackburn, Marsha [R-TN-7]
Introduced: 2007-01-19 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Budget surpluses
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government trust funds
Governmental investigations
Investment of public funds
Investments
Legislation
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Social security finance

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: 
Savings for Seniors Act of 2007 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to establish in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund a Social Security Surplus Protection Account to hold the Social Security surplus.

Denies the availability of the balance in the Account for investment by the Managing Trustee.

Establishes in the executive branch of Government a Social Security Investment Commission to study and report to the President and Congress on the most effective vehicles for investment of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund, other than investment in the form of U.S. obligations resulting in the transfer of Trust Fund assets to the general fund of the Treasury.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-24
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Social Security.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
Teacher Training Expansion Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-582
Sponsor: Rep. Cummings, Elijah E. [D-MD-7]
Introduced: 2007-01-19 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Employee training
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Nonprofit organizations
School districts
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Teacher education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: 
Teacher Training Expansion Act of 2007 - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to authorize the Secretary of Education to give preference to certain entities in selecting recipients for specified IDEA grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements for technical assistance, model demonstration projects, information dissemination, and implementing activities supported by scientifically based research. 
 
Allows such preference to be given to institutions of higher education (IHEs) that are: (1) educating regular education personnel to meet the needs of children with disabilities in integrated settings; (2) educating special education personnel to work in collaboration with regular educators in integrated settings; or (3) successfully recruiting and preparing individuals with disabilities and individuals from groups that are underrepresented in the profession for which the IHE is preparing individuals.
 
Allows such preference also to be given to local educational agencies, other public agencies, and private nonprofit organizations that: (1) provide training to regular education personnel to meet the needs of children with disabilities in integrated settings; (2) provide training to regular education personnel to work in collaboration with regular educators in integrated settings; or (3) prepare individuals with disabilities and individuals from groups that are underrepresented in the profession for which the entity is preparing individuals.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E159-160)
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
Consistency, Accuracy, Responsibility, and Excellence in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-583
Sponsor: Rep. Doyle, Michael F. [D-PA-14]
Introduced: 2007-01-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Accreditation (Education)
Accreditation (Medical care)
Administrative procedure
Congressional reporting requirements
Department of Health and Human Services
Education
Educational tests
Federal preemption
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Imaging systems in medicine
Law
Licenses
Medical education
Medical personnel
Medical tests
Nonprofit organizations
Performance measurement
Quality of care
Radiotherapy
Rural health
Social Welfare
Standards
State laws
X-rays

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: 
Consistency, Accuracy, Responsibility, and Excellence in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Act of 2007 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish standards to ensure the safety and accuracy of medical imaging studies and radiation therapy treatments. Imposes such standards on personnel who perform, plan, or evaluate, or verify patient doses for, medical imaging studies and radiation therapy procedures and not on the equipment used. Exempts physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants.
 
Directs the Secretary to ensure that individuals demonstrate compliance with such standards.
 
Requires the Secretary to provide a method for the recognition of individuals whose training and experience are determined to equal or exceed that of: (1) a graduate of an accredited educational program in that specialty; or (2) an individual who is regularly eligible to take the licensure or certification examination for that discipline.
 
Directs the Secretary to certify qualified nonprofit organizations as approved bodies to provide accreditation to individuals that demonstrate compliance with such standards. 
 
Requires individuals who provide medical imaging services relating to mammograms to continue to meet standards under the Mammography Quality Standards Act of 1992.
 
Deems state standards for licensure or certification of personnel, accreditation of educational programs, or administration of examinations to be in compliance with the standards under this Act unless the Secretary determines otherwise. Requires the Secretary to establish a process by which a state may appeal such a determination.
 
Requires the Secretary to ensure that all programs under the authority of the Secretary meet such standards.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to develop alternative standards for rural areas or health professional shortage areas as appropriate to assure access to quality medical imaging.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend title 38, United States Code, to expand the number of individuals qualifying for retroactive benefits from traumatic injury protection coverage under Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance.

Bill: 110-hr-585
Sponsor: Rep. Herseth, Stephanie [D-SD-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-01-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Disabled
Finance and Financial Sector
Government life insurance
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military operations
South Asia
War casualties

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: 
Amends the Veterans' Housing Opportunity and Benefits Improvement Act of 2006 to remove the requirement that, in order to qualify for retroactive benefits from traumatic injury protection coverage under the Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance program during the period beginning on October 7, 2001, and ending on November 30, 2005, the Secretary of the military department concerned must determine that the loss was a direct result of a traumatic injury incurred in the theater of operations for Operations Enduring Freedom or Iraqi Freedom (thus including traumatic injury incurred while performing other types of military service during such period under such coverage).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-19
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2007-03-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
Flight 587 Act

Bill: 110-hr-587
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2007-01-19 in the House
Policy area: Transportation and Public Works
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Administrative remedies
Aircraft industry
Airlines
Aviation safety
Commerce
Congress
Congressional investigations
Consumer education
Department of Transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Law

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: 
Flight 587 Act - Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to: (1) require each aircraft manufacturer to list any information in the limitation section of each flight manual that may affect an aircraft's safe operation; and (2) resolve any dispute between a manufacturer and an operator arising about the safe operation of an aircraft (except in cases in which an adjudicatory resolution is sought).
 
Directs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to review the effectiveness and timeliness of the FAA in implementing recommendations made by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Aviation.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
To extend the period during which members of the Armed Forces deployed in contingency operations may request and receive reimbursement for helmet pads, which are designed to better protect the wearer from bomb blasts than military-issued pads, that are purchased by or for the use of such members.

Bill: 110-hr-588
Sponsor: Rep. Hooley, Darlene [D-OR-5]
Introduced: 2007-01-19 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Afghanistan
Armed forces abroad
Compensation (Law)
Crime and Law Enforcement
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Law
Middle East and North Africa
Military and naval supplies
Military occupation
Military operations
Military pay
Safety measures
South Asia
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: 
Amends the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 to extend the period during which members of the Armed Forces deployed in connection with Operations Noble Eagle, Enduring Freedom, or Iraqi Freedom may request and receive reimbursement for purchasing protective helmet pads.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Readiness.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
Student Financial Readiness Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-590
Sponsor: Rep. Knollenberg, Joe [R-MI-9]
Introduced: 2007-01-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: College costs
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education savings accounts
Higher education
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: 
Student Financial Readiness Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase from $2,000 to $5,000 the annual contribution limit to Coverdell education savings accounts; (2) adjust such contribution limit for inflation after 2007; and (3) prohibit contributions by individuals whose modified adjusted gross income exceeds $150,000 ($300,000 for married couples filing joint tax returns). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E154)
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
Cache la Poudre River National Heritage Area Technical Amendments Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-591
Sponsor: Rep. Musgrave, Marilyn N. [R-CO-4]
Introduced: 2007-01-19 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Authorization
Boundaries
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Colorado
Commemorations
Cultural property
Economic development
Economics and Public Finance
Environmental Protection
Historic sites
History
Landscape protection
Nature conservation
Nonprofit organizations
Right of property
Rivers
Social Welfare
Water Resources Development

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: 
Cache la Poudre River National Heritage Area Technical Amendments Act of 2007 - Amends the Cache La Poudre River Corridor Act to redesignate the Cache La Poudre Corridor as the &quot;Cache la Poudre River National Heritage Area.&quot; 
 
Designates the Poudre Heritage Alliance as the management entity for the Area. Provides for the immediate removal of private property included within the boundaries of the Area upon request from the owner. 
 
Prohibits the Alliance from using federal funds received under this Act to acquire real property. Prohibits the acquisition of any land or interest in land by the Secretary of the Interior or the Alliance under this Act without the owner's consent. 
 
Requires the Alliance to prepare and submit a management plan for the Area. 
 
Allows the Secretary to enter into cooperative agreements with the Alliance for the purpose of carrying out the plan. 
 
Prohibits any privately owned property from being preserved, conserved, or promoted by the plan unless the owner gives the Alliance consent for such preservation, conservation, or promotion after receiving notification from the Alliance of the proposed preservation, conservation, or promotion.
 
Specifies private property protections. 
 
Terminates the authority of the Secretary to provide financial assistance to the Alliance (excluding technical assistance and administrative oversight) under the Act 10 years after enactment of this Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
Campus Fire Safety Right-to-Know Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-592
Sponsor: Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr. [D-NJ-8]
Introduced: 2007-01-19 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Building construction
Building laws
College teachers
Colleges
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Death
Drug abuse
Economics and Public Finance
Educational facilities
Educational statistics
Electric appliances
Emergency Management
Equipment and supplies
Federal aid to education
Fire prevention
Fires
Fraternal organizations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Higher education
Housing and Community Development
Planning
School buildings
School personnel
Smoke detectors
Smoking
Standards
Student housing
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: 
Campus Fire Safety Right-to-Know Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to require each institution participating in any program under the Act to provide to all current students and employees, and to any applicant for enrollment or employment upon request, an annual fire safety report containing specified information about the campus fire safety practices and standards of that institution.
 
Requires such institutions to: (1) record all on-campus fires, including the nature, date, time, and general location of each fire and all unwanted and false fire alarms; and (2) open such information to public inspection. Requires the institutions to report on such information annually to the campus community in a manner that will aid the prevention of similar occurrences.
 
Directs each institution to require the national organizing bodies of the fraternities, sororities, and other student groups they recognize to collect specified fire safety information for each student housing facility they own, control, or occupy and report such information to the Secretary of Education, all current members, and to any interested party upon request.
 
Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on fire safety systems and standards in institution and student housing facilities, and on exemplary fire safety education and training programs at such institutions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-18
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-01-23
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E179)
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
Children's Health Insurance Promotion Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-593
Sponsor: Rep. Reichert, David G. [R-WA-8]
Introduced: 2007-01-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Church and social problems
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to child health services
Federal aid to health facilities
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Health insurance
Housing and Community Development
Indian children
Indian medical care
Language and languages
Maternal health services
Medicaid
Medically uninsured
Minorities
Minority health
Performance measurement
Poor children
Religion
Rural health
School health programs
Social Welfare
Welfare eligibility
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: 
Children's Health Insurance Promotion Act of 2007 - Amends title XXI (State Children's Health Insurance) (SCHIP) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to eligible entities to: (1) conduct innovative outreach and enrollment efforts that are designed to increase the enrollment and participation of eligible children under SCHIP; and (2) promote understanding of the importance of health insurance coverage for prenatal care and children.

Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to grant a state the option to provide for simplified determinations of a child's financial eligibility for medical assistance under Medicaid or child health assistance under SCHIP.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
Prevent Unfair Manipulation of Prices Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-594
Sponsor: Rep. Stupak, Bart [D-MI-1]
Introduced: 2007-01-19 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agriculture and Food
Business records
Civil actions and liability
Coal
Commerce
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Commodity exchanges
Commodity prices
Crime and Law Enforcement
Derivative securities
Diesel motor
Electricity
Embezzlement
Energy prices
Finance and Financial Sector
Fines (Penalties)
Futures trading
Gasoline
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Independent regulatory commissions
Information disclosure (Securities law)
Larceny
Law
Market manipulation
Natural gas
Petroleum
Propane
Restrictive trade practices
Securities fraud
Securities industry
Securities regulation

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: 
Prevent Unfair Manipulation of Prices Act of 2007 - Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to extend its jurisdiction to certain: (1) &quot;included energy transactions&quot; traded on an electronic trading facility; and (2) certain energy commodities involved in over-the-counter transactions.
 
Sets forth reporting and recordkeeping requirements for: (1) certain contract participants that enter into or execute &quot;included energy transactions;&quot; and (2) electronic trading facilities for energy commodities.
 
Extends prohibitions against fraudulent transactions to: (1) filling an order by offset against the other person's order; and (2) knowingly and willfully becoming the buyer in respect to another person's selling order, or the seller in respect to another person's buying order, without the other person's prior consent.
 
Empowers the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to impose civil and criminal penalties for price manipulation and other violations of such Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-02
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-11
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H399-400)
Stimulating Leadership in Limiting Expenditures (or 'SLICE') Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-595
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2007-01-19 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Congress
Expedited congressional procedure
Federal aid to transportation
Government Operations and Politics
Government spending reductions
House rules and procedure
Legislation
Presidential messages
Presidential powers
Rescission of appropriated funds
Senate rules and procedure
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: 
Stimulating Leadership in Limiting Expenditures Act (or SLICE Act) of 2007 - Amends the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 to authorize the President to propose, at any time and in any manner provided in this Act, the rescission of any budget authority in an appropriation Act.
 
Prohibits funds made available for obligation under this procedure from being proposed for rescission again.
 
Sets forth requirements for: (1) the President's transmittal to Congress of a special message regarding a proposed rescission; and (2) expedited consideration of such proposal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-02-16
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E378)
action_date: 2007-02-07
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E277-278)
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2007-01-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2007-01-19
text: Referred to the Committee on the Budget, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, 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: 2007-01-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E158-159)
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-01-19
text: Introduced in House