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To require a clear accounting of the combat proficiency of the security forces of Iraq.

Bill: 110-hr-2156
Sponsor: Rep. Israel, Steve [D-NY-2]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Armed forces abroad
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional reporting requirements
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Middle East and North Africa
Military operations
Military withdrawal

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Declares that it shall be U.S. policy to ensure that: (1) the security forces of Iraq are trained to achieve the highest level of combat efficiency in order to provide for the security and stability of the Iraqi people; (2) as each battalion of the Iraqi security forces achieves a level of combat proficiency such that it can conduct independent combat operations without Coalition support a comparable U.S. Armed Forces unit will be redeployed from Iraq; and (3) regular, accurate accounts of the combat proficiency of battalions of the Iraqi security forces are necessary for the American public to gauge Iraqi security force development. 
 
Directs the President to transmit to the appropriate congressional committees a monthly report respecting the number of Iraqi security force battalions at specified combat proficiency levels.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign 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: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign 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: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Foreign 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: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide that certain facilities located in areas designated as rural areas before January 1, 2000, qualify as rural health clinics regardless of whether or not such areas remain so designated.

Bill: 110-hr-2157
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Timothy V. [R-IL-15]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Clinics
Housing and Community Development
Medicaid
Medicare
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide that a facility located in a non-urbanized area so designated by the Bureau of the Census before January 1, 2000, that also satisfies all other applicable conditions, shall qualify as a rural health clinic for purposes of Medicare and SSA title XIX (Medicaid), whether or not such area remains so designated. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-03
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: 2007-05-03
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: 2007-05-03
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: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Social Security Benefits Tax Relief Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2158
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Sam [R-TX-3]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Appropriations
Congressional reporting requirements
Economics and Public Finance
Government trust funds
Health
Income tax
Labor and Employment
Medicare
Old age, survivors and disability insurance
Railroad retirement plans
Social Welfare
Social security beneficiaries
Tax rates
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Social Security Benefits Tax Relief Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the 85 percent maximum tax rate on Social Security and Railroad Retirement benefits enacted by the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993. Appropriates, from the general fund, to the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund amounts equal to the reduction in revenues resulting from this repeal.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Rural Health Services Preservation Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2159
Sponsor: Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Access to health care
Clinics
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Health insurance
Health maintenance organizations
Hospital care
Hospital rates
Housing and Community Development
Long-term care
Managed care
Medicare
Rural health
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Rural Health Services Preservation Act of 2007 - Amends part C (Medicare+Choice) of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to require Medicare Advantage organizations to provide for a payment rate for critical access hospital services and rural health clinic services that is: (1) at least the applicable payment rate established under Medicare part A (Hospital Insurance) or part B (Supplementary Medical Insurance) for such services; or (2) 103% of the otherwise applicable payment rate, if the critical access hospital or the rural health clinic determines appropriate.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 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: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2160
Sponsor: Rep. King, Peter T. [R-NY-3]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Accounting
Administrative procedure
Cost of living adjustments
Department of Labor
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Finance and Financial Sector
Fire fighters
Government Operations and Politics
Health
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Labor and Employment
Law
Paramedical personnel
Social Welfare
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Volunteer workers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Volunteer Emergency Services Recruitment and Retention Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow sponsors of certain deferred compensation plans to elect to include length of service award plans for bona fide volunteers providing fire fighting and prevention services, emergency medical services, ambulance services, and emergency rescue services.

Directs the Secretary of Labor to issue regulations exempting a length of service award program from treatment as an employee pension benefit plan under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Healthy Families and Communities.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
To waive time limitations specified by law in order to allow the Medal of Honor to be awarded to Gary Lee McKiddy, of Miamisburg, Ohio, for acts of valor while a helicopter crew chief and door gunner with the 1st Cavalry Division during the Vietnam War.

Bill: 110-hr-2161
Sponsor: Rep. Levin, Sander M. [D-MI-12]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Commemorations
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Army
Congress
Congressional Medal of Honor
History
Military history
Military personnel
Vietnamese Conflict

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Authorizes and requests the President to award the Medal of Honor posthumously to Gary Lee McKiddy of Miamisburg, Ohio, for acts of valor while serving in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, notwithstanding otherwise application time limitations.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Nuclear Power Licensing Reform Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2162
Sponsor: Rep. Lowey, Nita M. [D-NY-18]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Energy
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Crime and Law Enforcement
Emergency Management
Evacuation of civilians
Government Operations and Politics
Independent regulatory commissions
Law
Licenses
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Nuclear power plants
Nuclear security measures
Nuclear terrorism
Planning
Population
Terrorism

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Nuclear Power Licensing Reform Act of 2007 - Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to require, for a commercial license for an atomic power production or utilization facility, that: (1) the facility does not pose an unreasonable threat to persons or the environment because of safety or security vulnerabilities (including vulnerability to terrorist attacks); and (2) there exist adequate evacuation plans for emergency events which have been approved by the relevant federal agencies and states within 50 miles of the facility.

Conditions renewal of any such license on the same criteria and requirements applicable for an original application for initial construction.

Instructs the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to ensure that any changes in the size or distribution of the surrounding population have not resulted in the facility's being located at a site at which a new facility would not be allowed to be built.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Kids Invest and Develop Savings Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2163
Sponsor: Rep. Mack, Connie [R-FL-14]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Cost of living adjustments
Economics and Public Finance
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Income tax
Indexing (Economic policy)
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Saving and investment
Tax credits
Tax-deferred compensation plans

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Kids Invest and Develop Savings Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) increase the allowable amount of the tax credit for retirement savings; (2) expand eligibility for such credit to taxpayers with adjusted gross incomes up to $95,000 ($150,000 for joint returns); (3) establish tax-exempt Roth individual retirement accounts (IRAs) for individuals under the age of 25; and (4) allow a tax credit for contributions to such IRAs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Medicare Ambulance Payment Extension Act

Bill: 110-hr-2164
Sponsor: Rep. McNulty, Michael R. [D-NY-21]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Ambulances
Emergency Management
Medical fees
Medicare
Social Welfare

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Medicare Ambulance Payment Extension Act - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to provide an additional 5% increase in Medicare payments for ground ambulance services furnished on or after January 1, 2008, and before January 1, 2010. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-15
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-03
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: 2007-05-03
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: 2007-05-03
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: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Teri Zenner Social Worker Safety Act

Bill: 110-hr-2165
Sponsor: Rep. Moore, Dennis [D-KS-3]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Social Welfare
Subjects: Alcoholism
Crime and Law Enforcement
Drug abuse
Drug addiction
Economics and Public Finance
Grants-in-aid
Health
Labor and Employment
Occupational health and safety
Safety measures
Social work
Violence

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Teri Zenner Social Worker Safety Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award grants to states to provide safety measures to social workers and other professionals working with violent, drug-using, or other at-risk populations. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Practicality in Education Act

Bill: 110-hr-2166
Sponsor: Rep. Moran, Jerry [R-KS-1]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Disabled
Distance education
Educational accountability
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Government Operations and Politics
Housing and Community Development
Illiteracy
Language and languages
Law
Licenses
Mathematics
Rating of teachers
Reading
Rural education
School administration
Secondary education
Special education
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Practicality in Education Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow states to exclude the results of limited English proficient students, during their first two school years in this country, from adequate yearly progress (AYP) assessments, when such students are assessed in reading or mathematics in a language other than their native tongue.

Allows state determinations of AYP pursuant to state academic achievement standards to employ a growth model, measuring the achievement of the same students and subgroups from year to year.

Requires that 4% of disabled students taking modified assessments be counted in measuring student proficiency pursuant to such standards.

Gives schools which are identified as needing improvement, due to having failed for two consecutive years to make AYP pursuant to such standards, a full new school year to meet the standards before its students must be given the option to transfer to another public school. (Currently, such transfers must be allowed at the beginning of the school year following such identification.)

Provides that, in determining AYP, a student in more than one group subject to measurable annual objectives shall be counted only toward one such group.

Allows states to consider new middle and secondary school special education and rural teachers to be highly qualified even if they do not pass a rigorous state academic subject test in every subject they teach, provided they pass such a test for one subject they teach and, with respect to each other subject they teach, work in close consultation with another teacher who is highly qualified in such other subject.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Automatic IRA Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2167
Sponsor: Rep. Neal, Richard E. [D-MA-2]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Commerce
Executive reorganization
Government Operations and Politics
Income tax
Individual retirement accounts
Labor and Employment
Payroll deductions
Small business
Tax credits

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Automatic IRA Act of 2007 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require certain small employers who do not offer qualified retirement plans or arrangements to their employees to allow eligible employees to participate in a payroll deposit individual retirement account (IRA) arrangement (automatic IRAs); (2) allow employers who do not have more than 100 employees a tax credit for costs associated with establishing a payroll deposit IRA arrangement; and (3) treat automatic IRAs as individual retirement accounts (and as Roth IRAs) for income tax purposes. 

Establishes in the executive branch the TSP II Board to establish policies and procedures relating to payroll deposit IRA arrangements.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E953-954)
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Labor, 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: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Dedicated Dental Service for HIV/AIDS Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2168
Sponsor: Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: AIDS (Disease)
Access to health care
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Demography
Dental care
Dentistry
Dentists
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Federal aid to education
Finance and Financial Sector
Higher education
Human immunodeficiency viruses
Loan defaults
Medical education
Scholarships
Student loan funds

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Dedicated Dental Service for HIV/AIDS Act of 2007 - Authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to enter into an agreement under which an individual agrees to serve as a dentist for a not less than two years at a facility with a critical shortage of dentists in an area with a high incidence of HIV/AIDS in exchange for the Secretary making payments on the individual's dental education loans. Requires such payments to equal 30% of the principal and interest on such loans after the first and second years of service and 25% after the third year of service.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E956-957)
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
Clean Water Protection Act

Bill: 110-hr-2169
Sponsor: Rep. Pallone, Frank, Jr. [D-NJ-6]
Introduced: 2007-05-03 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Waste disposal in rivers, lakes, etc.
Water pollution control

Summary:
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: 
Clean Water Protection Act - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (popularly known as the Clean Water Act) to define "fill material" to mean any pollutant that replaces portions of waters of the United States with dry land or that changes the bottom elevation of a water body for any purpose and to exclude any pollutant discharged into the water primarily to dispose of waste. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-05-04
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-05-03
text: Introduced in House