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To amend the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 to prohibit the labeling of cloned livestock and products derived from cloned livestock as organic.

Bill: 110-hr-1396
Sponsor: Rep. Woolsey, Lynn C. [D-CA-6]
Introduced: 2007-03-07 in the House
Policy area: Agriculture and Food
Subjects: Animals
Cloning
Commerce
Labeling
Livestock
Meat
Organic farming

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: 
 Amends the Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 to prohibit the labeling of cloned livestock and products derived from cloned livestock as organic. 
 
Defines &quot;cloned livestock&quot; as: (1) livestock produced as the result of somatic cell nuclear transfer or other asexual reproduction technologies; and (2) the progeny of such livestock.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-07
text: Introduced in House
To provide for immigration relief in the case of certain immigrants who are innocent victims of immigration fraud.

Bill: 110-hr-1397
Sponsor: Rep. Honda, Michael M. [D-CA-15]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the House
Policy area: Immigration
Subjects: Administrative remedies
Aliens
Bribery
Crime and Law Enforcement
Department of Homeland Security
East Asia
Evidence (Law)
Families
Fraud
Government Operations and Politics
Immigrants
Law
Limitation of actions
Married people
Naturalization
South Korea
Victims of crimes
Visas

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Provides immigration relief for aliens who are determined by the Secretary of Homeland Security to have: (1) obtained nonimmigrant status on or after January 1, 1980, and who at that time were nationals of the Republic of Korea; (2) applied before January 1, 1999, through one or more immigration brokers for adjustment to permanent resident status through the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) office in San Jose, California; (3) obtained adjustment approval as the result of bribery by such brokers of an INS supervisor; and (4) had no actual knowledge of the fraud at the time of adjustment. Extends relief to the spouse and children of eligible aliens granted permanent resident status.
 
 Prohibits the immigration fraud reflected by such bribery from being considered in determining the admissibility or removability of eligible aliens.
 
Requires the Secretary to: (1) restore an eligible alien's status as if the original adjustment had been lawful, including where permanent resident status or naturalization was rescinded or where removal was ordered on the basis of the fraud; and (2) parole (and provide necessary travel documents) into the United States eligible aliens who were removed or who voluntarily departed in connection with charges relating to the fraud for purposes of filing an application for relief under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
Agricultural Protection and Prosperity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1398
Sponsor: Rep. Peterson, Collin C. [D-MN-7]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Agricultural pollution
Agricultural wastes
Agriculture and Food
Air pollution control
Animals
Emergency Management
Farm manure
Law
Liability for environmental damages
Livestock

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Agricultural Protection and Prosperity Act of 2007 - Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) to: (1) include the definition of &quot;manure&quot;; and (2) exclude manure from the meaning of &quot;hazardous substance&quot; or &quot;pollutant or contaminant&quot; under that Act. Provides that such exclusion shall not: (1) impose liability under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act of 1986 with respect to manure; (2) affect any provision of the Air Quality Agreement entered into between the Administrator and operators of animal feeding operations; or (3) affect the applicability of any other environmental law as it relates to the definition of manure or the responsibilities or liabilities of any person regarding the treatment, storage, or disposal of manure.
 
Amends the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 to exempt releases associated with manure (as defined under CERCLA) from the emergency notification requirements under that Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 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: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide a 2 percent tax reduction for members of the Armed Forces who serve in a combat zone.

Bill: 110-hr-1403
Sponsor: Rep. Carney, Christopher P. [D-PA-10]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Income tax
Iraq compilation
Military personnel
Tax deductions

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow members of the Armed Forces who have served on active duty in a combat zone for 90 days or more (including hospitalizations due to wounds, disease, or injury incurred while in combat) a tax deduction from gross income for two percent of their adjusted gross income up to $2,000.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to exclude from gross income a portion of the compensation received for active service and for inactive-duty training as a member of the Armed Forces.

Bill: 110-hr-1404
Sponsor: Rep. Carney, Christopher P. [D-PA-10]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Income tax
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Military pay
Military training
Tax exclusion

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from gross income 2% of the compensation of members of the Armed Forces for active service and inactive-duty training.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase, and make permanent certain improvements to, the child tax credit.

Bill: 110-hr-1406
Sponsor: Rep. Ellsworth, Brad [D-IN-8]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Families
Income tax
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the child tax credit for the first year a child is claimed as a qualifying child. 

Renders the general terminating date of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (i.e., December 31, 2010) inapplicable to amendments made to the child tax credit by that Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E491)
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
Higher Education Affordability and Equity Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1407
Sponsor: Rep. English, Phil [R-PA-3]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
College costs
Congress
Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Education savings accounts
Employee benefit plans
Equipment and supplies
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Health
Higher education
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Interest
Labor and Employment
Medical education
Medical personnel
Military medicine
Military personnel
Public health personnel
Scholarships
Student aid
Student loan funds
Sunset legislation
Tax deductions
Tax exclusion
Tax returns
Textbooks
Tuition tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Higher Education Affordability and Equity Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) repeal the dollar limitation on the tax deduction for interest on education loans and expand eligibility for such deduction by revising the modified adjusted gross income phaseout for such deduction; (2) make the tax deduction for qualified tuition and related expenses permanent; (3) increase from $2,000 to $5,000 the maximum allowable contribution to a Coverdell savings account; (4) exclude from gross income amounts received for qualified higher education expenses (e.g., books, supplies, room, board, and special needs services); and (5) allow certain additional expenses (e.g., fees, books, supplies, and equipment) for purposes of the Hope Scholarship Tax Credit and provide that such tax credit shall not be reduced by Federal Pell Grants and Supplemental Educational Opportunity (SEOG) Grants.

Repeals the sunset provisions of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 (EGTRRA) applicable to title IV, subtitles A, B, and D (Affordable Education Provisions) of such Act. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
Chattahoochee Trace National Heritage Corridor Study Act

Bill: 110-hr-1408
Sponsor: Rep. Everett, Terry [R-AL-2]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Alabama
Arts, Culture, Religion
Commemorations
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural property
Environmental Protection
Georgia
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Nature conservation
Water Resources Development
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Chattahoochee Trace National Heritage Corridor Study Act - Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to assess the suitability and feasibility of designating a specified study area in the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin (Alabama and Georgia) as the &quot;Chattahoochee Trace National Heritage Corridor.&quot; 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E498)
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
College Life Safety and Fire Prevention Act

Bill: 110-hr-1409
Sponsor: Rep. Fossella, Vito [R-NY-13]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Black colleges
Colleges
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Equipment and supplies
Federal aid to education
Fire prevention
Fraternal organizations
Higher education
Hispanic Americans
Housing and Community Development
Indian education
Minorities
Minority education
Student housing
Students

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
College Life Safety and Fire Prevention Act - Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to establish a demonstration program to award grants to eligible entities for the purpose of contracting with fire alarm companies to install professionally fire alarm detection systems or other fire detection and prevention technologies in student housing, dormitories, and other buildings controlled by such entities. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Child Care for the Gulf Coast Region Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1410
Sponsor: Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the House
Policy area: Families
Subjects: Alabama
Child care workers
Day care
Distance education
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Employee benefit plans
Employee training
Federal aid to education
Fees
Floods
Grants-in-aid
Higher education
Hurricanes
Labor and Employment
Louisiana
Mississippi
Nonprofit organizations
Scholarships
Science, Technology, Communications
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Texas
User charges
Vocational and technical education

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Emergency Child Care for the Gulf Coast Region Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish grant programs for: (1) businesses and consortia in the Gulf Coast Region to pay start-up costs and to provide additional child care services for employees; (2) nonprofit business organizations in the Region to provide technical assistance to such businesses for child care services; (3) entities to develop distance learning child care training technology infrastructures and model technology-based training courses for child care providers and workers in the Region; and (4) child care providers in the Region to improve the qualifications and promote the retention of such providers. Defines &quot;Gulf Coast Region&quot; to mean the area declared by the President to be a major disaster as a consequence of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
 
Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to make scholarship grants to child care providers to improve their educational qualifications to provide services.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Gulf Coast Child Care Construction and Rebuilding Act

Bill: 110-hr-1411
Sponsor: Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Alabama
Block grants
Building construction
Commerce
Community development
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Construction industries
Construction workers
Curricula
Day care
Disaster relief
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Emergency Management
Equipment and supplies
Families
Fire prevention
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government lending
Governmental investigations
Housing and Community Development
Hurricanes
Infrastructure
Labor and Employment
Louisiana
Maintenance and repair
Minimum wages
Mississippi
Mortgage guaranty insurance
Nonprofit organizations
Revolving funds
Secondary mortgage market
Social Welfare
Teaching materials
Texas
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Emergency Gulf Coast Child Care Construction and Rebuilding Act - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to authorize the use of community development block grants to construct and renovate child care facilities located in any major disaster area resulting from Hurricane Katrina or Rita of 2005. 

Amends the National Housing Act to authorize the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to insure: (1) mortgages for new or substantially rehabilitated child care and development facilities; (2) loans to such facilities for fire safety equipment; and (2) mortgages executed in connection with the purchase or refinancing of existing child care facilities. 

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to study and report to Congress on the availability of secondary markets for such mortgages. 

Authorizes HUD grants to eligible nonprofit organizations for technical and financial assistance to assist eligible child care providers in acquiring or improving facilities or equipment. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
Emergency Child Care Lending for the Gulf Coast Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1412
Sponsor: Rep. Jefferson, William J. [D-LA-2]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the House
Policy area: Commerce
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Alabama
Charities
Congress
Congressional investigations
Congressional reporting requirements
Day care
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Floods
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government paperwork
Hurricanes
Law
Loans
Louisiana
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Mississippi
Nonprofit organizations
Poor children
Small Business Administration
Small business
Social Welfare
Surety and fidelity
Tax-exempt organizations
Taxation
Texas
Women
Women in business

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Emergency Child Care Lending for the Gulf Coast Act of 2007 - Authorizes the proceeds of a loan for plant acquisition, construction, conversion, or expansion under the Small Business Investment Act of 1958 to be used by the certified development company to provide loans to small, nonprofit child care businesses that have a track record of providing such services in the presidentially declared disaster areas in the Gulf Coast region.

Limits to 3% the amount of the total number of such loans guaranteed in FY2008-FY2009 that may be awarded for the program under this Act. Terminates such program after December 30, 2008.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Small Business.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
9/11 Heroes Health Improvement Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1414
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Federal aid to health facilities
Health insurance
Health surveys
Medical screening
Medically uninsured
Mental health services
New York City
Physical examinations
September 11, 2001
Terrorism
Victims of terrorism
Virginia

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
9/11 Heroes Health Improvement Act of 2007 - Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to award grants to eligible entities to provide medical and mental health monitoring, tracking, and treatment to individuals whose health has been directly impacted as a result of the attacks on New York City and at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Includes as eligible individuals firefighters, police officers, paramedics, workers, volunteers, residents, students, and any other individual who worked at Ground Zero, Fresh Kills (recovery site on Staten Island), or the Pentagon or lived or worked in the vicinity of such areas, whose health has deteriorated as a result of the attacks, and who has been evaluated by a physician or mental health professional for 9/11-related health conditions and needs treatment for such conditions. Sets the order of priority for individuals covered under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-09
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-1416
Sponsor: Rep. Nadler, Jerrold [D-NY-8]
Introduced: 2007-03-08 in the House
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement
Subjects: Aliens
Armed Forces and National Security
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Detention of persons
Habeas corpus
Human rights
Immigration
International Affairs
Jurisdiction
Law
Prisoners of war
Prisoners' rights
Terrorism
Treaties
War

Summary:
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: 
Habeas Corpus Restoration Act of 2007- Repeals provisions of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that eliminated the jurisdiction of any court to hear or consider applications for a writ of habeas corpus filed by aliens who have been determined by the United States to have been properly detained as enemy combatants (or who are awaiting such determination) and actions against the United States relating to the detention of such aliens and to military commissions (thus restoring habeas corpus rights existing prior to the enactment of such Act).

Allows courts to hear or consider legal challenges to military commissions only as provided by the Code of Military Justice or by a habeas corpus proceeding. 

Repeals the prohibition in the Military Commissions Act of 2006 against invoking the Geneva Convention as a source of rights in any habeas corpus or other civil actions in which the United States or a member of the Armed Forces is a party.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-03-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-03-08
text: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, 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: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-03-08
text: Introduced in House