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Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6314
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2008-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Science, Technology, Communications
Subjects: Caregivers
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Disabled
Discrimination in education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Engineers
Families
Federal aid to research
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Higher education
Infrastructure
Mathematics
Research and development
Research grants
Scientists
Sex discrimination
Social Welfare
Women
Women professionals
Women's rights

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: 
Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Act of 2008 - Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to develop a policy for federal science agencies to carry out a program of workshops that educate specified federally funded researchers about methods that minimize the effects of gender bias in the evaluation of federal research grants and in the related academic advancement of the recipients of these grants. 

Requires the support of at least one workshop every two years among the federal science agencies in the major science and engineering disciplines.

Authorizes federal science agencies to carry out such program by making grants to eligible organizations as described in this Act. 

Requires the Director to transmit a report evaluating such program's impact in reducing gender bias towards women engaged in research funded by the federal government. 

Requires the Director to develop a policy to extend research grant support and provide interim technical support for federally funded researchers who are caregivers. Requires transmission of a copy of such policy to specified congressional committees. 

Requires federal science agencies to collect specified standardized annual data for all applications for research and development grants to institutions of higher education and to submit the data collected to the National Science Foundation (NSF). Makes the NSF responsible for storing and publishing all such grant data. 

Requires annual publication of a list of the institutions of higher education science and engineering departments represented by individuals who attend the workshops described above. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-09-27
text: Hearing Held by Subcommittee on Research and Science Education Prior to Indroduction and Referral (05/08/2008)..
action_date: 2008-07-14
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Science and Technology.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in House
To authorize United States participation in, and appropriations for the United States contribution to, an international clean technology fund, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-6315
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Gwen [D-WI-4]
Introduced: 2008-06-19 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Air pollution control
Climate change and greenhouse gases
Cost effectiveness
Developing countries
Development credit institutions
Economic assistance
Environmental Protection
Environmental technology
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign loans
Science, Technology, Communications

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: 
Amends the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to contribute to a Fund to promote accelerated deployment in developing countries of technologies designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 
 
Requires that such Fund be established and administered by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). 
 
Amends the the International Financial Institutions Act to direct the Secretary to seek to ensure that each multilateral development bank adopts and implements greenhouse gas accounting in analyzing the benefits and costs of all projects for which bank funding is sought.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in House
To amend chapter 31 of title 40, United States Code (commonly known as the Davis-Bacon Act) to provide an exemption from the prevailing wage requirements for certain non-profit organizations.

Bill: 110-hr-6317
Sponsor: Rep. Drake, Thelma D. [R-VA-2]
Introduced: 2008-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Commerce
Construction industries
Construction workers
Government contractors
Labor and Employment
Minimum wages
Nonprofit organizations
Social Welfare
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: 
Amends the Davis-Bacon Act to exempt parties to a contract with a tax-exempt nonprofit organization from the Act's prevailing wage requirements for laborers and mechanics.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in House
To designate a portion of United States Route 20A, located in Orchard Park, New York, as the "Timothy J. Russert Highway".

Bill: 110-hr-6318
Sponsor: Rep. Higgins, Brian [D-NY-27]
Introduced: 2008-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Congressional tributes
Government Operations and Politics
Names
New York State
Reporters and reporting
Roads and highways
Television news
Television programs
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: 
Designates the portion of U.S. Route 20A located in Orchard Park, New York, between Abbot Road and California Road, as the &quot;Timothy J. Russert Highway.&quot;


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Commission on Affordable Health Care Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6319
Sponsor: Rep. Hill, Baron P. [D-IN-9]
Introduced: 2008-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Comprehensive health care
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Expedited congressional procedure
Federal advisory bodies
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
House rules and procedure
Legislation
Medical economics
Medically uninsured
Quality of care
Senate rules and procedure

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: 
Commission on Affordable Health Care Act of 2008 - Establishes in the legislative branch the Commission on Affordable Health Care to: (1) conduct a comprehensive study of potential models for a health care system to provide affordable and quality health care to all U.S. citizens; and (2) make recommendations for implementing such a system. Requires the Commission to report to Congress on the study and include a legislative proposal that provides for a health care system based on the recommendations of the Commission. Provides for expedited congressional consideration of such a proposal.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2008-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2008-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in House
HEATR Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6321
Sponsor: Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2008-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Electric utility rates
Energy
Energy prices
Heating
Housing and Community Development
Income tax
Natural gas
Tax credits
Tax refunds

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: 
Home Energy Affordability Tax Relief Act of 2008 or the HEATR Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers an income-based refundable tax credit for residential energy costs. Limits such credit to the lesser of 33% of such costs or $500.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Imported Ethanol Facilitation Act

Bill: 110-hr-6324
Sponsor: Rep. Udall, Mark [D-CO-2]
Introduced: 2008-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance
Subjects: Alcohol as fuel
Energy
Energy prices
Energy supplies
Excise tax
Governmental investigations
Income tax
Tariff
Tax rates
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: 
Imported Ethanol Facilitation Act - Requires the President to: (1) reduce the temporary duty imposed on imported ethanol under the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States by an amount equal to the reduction in any federal income or excise tax credit under the Internal Revenue Code for alcohol and ethanol blends used as fuel that occurs on or after January 1, 2009; and (2) take other necessary actions to ensure that the temporary duty imposed on imported ethanol does not exceed any federal income or excise tax credit applicable to ethanol.
 
Directs the Secretary of Energy and the Secretary of Commerce to report to Congress on the effects of the further reduction or elimination of the duty on ethanol (resulting in increased imports) on: (1) U.S. fuel prices and U.S. supplies; and (2) domestic production of ethanol.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1282)
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Packaging Reduction Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6325
Sponsor: Rep. Weiner, Anthony D. [D-NY-9]
Introduced: 2008-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Commerce
Consumer goods
Environmental Protection Agency
Government Operations and Politics
Law
Packaging
Waste reduction

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: 
 Packaging Reduction Act of 2008 - Establishes a national consumer product packaging reduction goal to reduce the total amount of packaging used on consumer products in the United States to an amount that is at least 30 percent below the amount used on the date of enactment of this Act.

 Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and implement a plan to meet the national packaging reduction goal within 10 years after enactment of this Act that includes methods of meeting the goal and methods of measuring the plan's effectiveness.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in House
Military Family Support Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6326
Sponsor: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2008-06-19 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Caregivers
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Defense budgets
Department of Defense
Disciplining of employees
Discrimination in employment
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Family leave
Federal employees
Government spending reductions
Law
Leave of absence
Military dependents
Military operations
Military research
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Sick leave

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: 
Military Family Support Act of 2008 - Directs the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to establish a program to authorize a caregiver (a federal employee at least 18 years of age capable of providing care to a child or other dependent family member of a member of the Armed Forces) to use: (1) any available sick leave for the provision of such care in the same manner as annual leave is used; and (2) any federal leave available to that caregiver as though that period of caregiving is a medical emergency.

 Requires the program to: (1) provide a process for reasonable notice of the need for leave; and (2) protect employees from discrimination or retaliation for the use of leave under this Act and provide the opportunity to appeal a denial of its use. Requires the service member for whom the caregiving is provided to be performing service in support of a contingency operation or in situations for which hostile fire or imminent danger pay is authorized and to designate the caregiver for his or her family.

 Terminates the program on December 31, 2012.

Provides for an offsetting reduction in FY2008 appropriations for the Department of Defense for research, development, test and evaluation.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2008-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2008-06-19
text: Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-19
text: Introduced in House
To develop a policy to address the critical needs of Iraqi refugees.

Bill: 110-hr-6328
Sponsor: Rep. Berman, Howard L. [D-CA-28]
Introduced: 2008-06-20 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Displaced persons
Economics and Public Finance
Executive Office of the President
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Immigration
International agencies
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Refugees
Repatriation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: 
Establishes in the Executive Office of the President the position of White House Coordinator for Iraqi Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons who shall: (1) develop and implement U.S. policies, and coordinate federal functions, to address the protection, resettlement, and assistance needs of Iraqi refugees and displaced persons; (2) monitor the development and implementation of assistance strategies to countries in the Middle East hosting Iraqi refugees; (3) ensure that the President's budget requests to Congress are sufficient to meet the needs of such persons, including providing assistance for international efforts on behalf of such persons; (4) serve as principal liaison with the government of Iraq and the international community and organizations that are assisting such persons; and (5) ensure that the U.S. government will encourage refugee returns only when conditions permit safe and voluntary returns.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2008-07-16
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in House
To expedite the construction of new refining capacity on brownfield sites in the United States, and for other purposes.

Bill: 110-hr-6329
Sponsor: Rep. Cubin, Barbara [R-WY-At Large]
Introduced: 2008-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Appellate courts
Brownfields
Civil actions and liability
Commerce
Corporation taxes
Depreciation and amortization
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Gasoline
Income tax
Jurisdiction
Law
Licenses
Petroleum industry
Petroleum refineries
Tax deductions
Taxation

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: 
Requires the Secretary of Energy to designate at least five brownfield sites (or portions of them) that are appropriate and available for siting a refinery for gasoline or other fuel.
 
Designates the Department of Energy as the lead agency for coordinating applicable federal refinery authorizations and related environmental reviews with respect to a designated refinery.

Gives the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia exclusive jurisdiction over civil actions relating to federal refinery authorizations. 
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to extend until January 1, 2017, the election to expense certain refineries. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2008-06-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2008-06-20
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in House
To authorize additional appropriations for summer youth employment activities under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 for fiscal years 2008 and 2009.

Bill: 110-hr-6332
Sponsor: Rep. Clyburn, James E. [D-SC-6]
Introduced: 2008-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Authorization
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Summer employment
Youth employment

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: 
Authorizes additional appropriations for FY2008-FY2009 to the Secretary of Labor for summer youth employment activities under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Municipal Bond Market Support Act of 2008

Bill: 110-hr-6333
Sponsor: Rep. Frank, Barney [D-MA-4]
Introduced: 2008-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Bonds
Economics and Public Finance
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Interest
Local finance
Tax deductions
Tax exemption

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: 
Municipal Bond Market Support Act of 2008 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the small issuer exemption from interest expense allocation rules for financial institutions to: (1) increase from $10 to $30 million the annual limit on small issuers of tax-exempt municipal bonds; (2) allow an inflation adjustment to such increased limit amount after 2009; (3) repeal aggregation rules relating to the determination of small issuer eligibility; (4) allow small issuers an election to treat borrowers separately for purposes of issuance limitations; and (5) allow financial institutions to hold up to 2% of their assets in tax-exempt securities without affecting their interest expense tax deduction. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in House
To provide for the transfer to the Government of Haiti of the real property of the former United States Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Bill: 110-hr-6335
Sponsor: Rep. Brown, Corrine [D-FL-3]
Introduced: 2008-06-20 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Caribbean area
Embassies
Haiti
Land transfers
Latin America
Public Lands and Natural Resources

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: 
Directs the Secretary of State to transfer to the government of Haiti the real property of the former U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in House
Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission Reauthorization Act

Bill: 110-hr-6336
Sponsor: Rep. Delahunt, William D. [D-MA-10]
Introduced: 2008-06-20 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Federal advisory bodies
Government Operations and Politics
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Massachusetts
National seashores

Summary:
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: 
Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission Reauthorization Act - Extends the authority for the Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission until September 26, 2018. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-06-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2008-06-20
text: Introduced in House