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National Financial Literacy Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2840
Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Eddie Bernice [D-TX-30]
Introduced: 2007-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Bank examination
Community development banking
Department of the Treasury
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
Financial planning
Financial services
Government Operations and Politics
Government corporations
Law
National Credit Union Administration
Personal budgets

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: 
National Financial Literacy Act of 2007 - Amends the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 to require federal financial supervisory agencies jointly to prescribe regulations establishing: (1) minimum standards to be met by a community-based financial literacy program in order to be eligible for consideration as a qualified community-based financial literacy program; (2) procedures for financial institutions to apply to a federal financial supervisory agency for approval of such a program; and (3) a requirement that financial institutions submit a regular report on how the institution supported and promoted financial literacy in its entire community, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.
 
Authorizes a federal financial supervisory agency to take an institution's direct support of a qualified community-based financial literacy program into account when it assesses the institution's record of meeting the community's credit needs.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-17
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Financial Services.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
To amend the wetlands reserve program of the Department of Agriculture to exclude from enrollment under the program land subject to a State or local set-back requirement unless the Secretary determines that enrollment of the land is essential to restore or preserve wetlands.

Bill: 110-hr-2841
Sponsor: Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2007-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agricultural conservation
Agriculture and Food
Conservation easements
Environmental Protection
Government Operations and Politics
Local laws
State laws
Wetlands
Zoning and zoning law

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: 
Amends the Food Security Act of 1985 to exclude from wetlands reserve program enrollment land subject to a state or local setback requirement unless the Secretary of Agriculture determines that such land's enrollment is essential to restore or preserve wetlands. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2008-04-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the House Committee on Agriculture.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Children's Health Protection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2842
Sponsor: Rep. Schwartz, Allyson Y. [D-PA-13]
Introduced: 2007-06-22 in the House
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Child health
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Discrimination in insurance
Discrimination in medical care
Employee health benefits
Families
Finance and Financial Sector
Health insurance
Labor and Employment

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: 
Children's Health Protection Act of 2007 - Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), the Public Health Service Act, and the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit a group health plan from imposing any preexisting condition exclusion for individuals who have not attained 19 years of age. 

Applies such requirement to coverage offered in the individual market. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and 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: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and 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: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and 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: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, and 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: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Library of Congress Public Diplomacy Collection Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2843
Sponsor: Rep. Watson, Diane E. [D-CA-33]
Introduced: 2007-06-22 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Arts, Culture, Religion
Congress
Congressional agencies
Congressional reporting requirements
Cultural relations
Embassies
Federal advisory bodies
Federal libraries
Gifts
Government Operations and Politics
History
Library of Congress
Motion pictures

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: 
Library of Congress Public Diplomacy Collection Act of 2007 - Directs the Librarian of Congress to create a collection of materials of various media, print, audio, and visual for public use in Department of State libraries and resource centers to provide insight into U.S. culture, principles and values, law and civics, and democracy. 
 
Includes in such collection a separate collection of U.S. films (Johnny Grant Film Series) to be made available for public viewing in host countries.
 
Authorizes appropriations.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-06-22
text: Referred to the Committee on House Administration, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 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: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-22
text: Introduced in House
Department of State Crisis Response Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2845
Sponsor: Rep. McCarthy, Carolyn [D-NY-4]
Introduced: 2007-06-25 in the House
Policy area: International Affairs
Subjects: Afghanistan
Civil service retirement
Department of State
Foreign service
Government Operations and Politics
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Labor and Employment
Middle East and North Africa
Recruiting of employees
Salaries
South Asia

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: 
Department of State Crisis Response Act of 2007 - Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to extend Department of State authority to employ civil service or Foreign Service annuitants through October 1, 2010.
 
Eliminates the requirement that such authority be used to facilitate assignment to Afghanistan or Iraq or to fill positions vacated because of assignments to such countries.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Improving Classroom Learning and Student Performance Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2846
Sponsor: Rep. Yarmuth, John A. [D-KY-3]
Introduced: 2007-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Colleges
Economics and Public Finance
Educational accountability
Educational tests
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Higher education
Performance measurement
School districts
Secondary education
Standards
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: 
Improving Classroom Learning and Student Performance Act of 2007 - Directs the Secretary of Education to award five-year grants to states that receive funds under title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to enable them to: (1) collaborate with institutions of higher education, other research institutions, and other organizations to improve the quality, validity, and reliability of state and local academic assessments, including performance assessments that evaluate the application of knowledge to real-world tasks; (2) develop the capacity of local education agencies (LEAs) to assess student academic achievement using multiple measures, including school-based performance assessments; and (3) develop, together with LEAs, the capacity of teachers and school leaders to develop, use, and reliably evaluate the results of locally-administered performance assessments.
 
Requires state grantees to ensure that state and local assessments are aligned to learning standards, unbiased, valid for the purposes for which they are used, reliably scored, and meet professional standards.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Chisholm and Great Western Cattle Trails Act

Bill: 110-hr-2849
Sponsor: Rep. Cole, Tom [R-OK-4]
Introduced: 2007-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Cattle
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Commemorations
Congressional reporting requirements
Governmental investigations
Historic sites
History
Kansas
Land transfers
Landowners
Oklahoma
Range management
Right of property
Sports and Recreation
Texas
Trails

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: 
Chisholm and Great Western Cattle Trails Act - Amends the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct separate studies to consider the designation of the Chisholm Trail and the Great Western Trail, historic cattle-drive trails, for study and potential addition to the National Trails System. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-29
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Introduced in House
To grant a Federal charter to Korean War Veterans Association, Incorporated.

Bill: 110-hr-2852
Sponsor: Rep. Hoyer, Steny H. [D-MD-5]
Introduced: 2007-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics
Subjects: Armed Forces and National Security
Federal incorporation
History
Korean War, 1950-1953
Veterans' organizations

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: 
Grants a federal charter to the Korean War Veterans Association, Incorporated (a nonprofit corporation incorporated under the laws of New York). 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-16
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1407)
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Alerting Localities of Environmental Risks and Threats (ALERT) Act

Bill: 110-hr-2853
Sponsor: Rep. Murphy, Patrick J. [D-PA-8]
Introduced: 2007-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Environmental Protection
Subjects: Crime and Law Enforcement
Environmental law enforcement
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Governors
Mayors

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: 
Alerting Localities of Environmental Risks and Threats (ALERT) Act - Requires the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to promptly notify the governor of a state and/or the head of a local government whenever the Administrator (or the Attorney General) takes specified enforcement actions (including the issuance, settlement, or final determination of an administrative order or complaint) with respect to any environmental law violation in, or directly affecting, that jurisdiction.



Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2007-06-25
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: 2007-06-25
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: 2007-06-25
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: 2007-06-25
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Environment and Hazardous Materials.
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Introduced in House
For the relief of Alfredo B. de Perio, Myrna L. de Perio, Allan Rey L. de Perio, and Marc de Perio.

Bill: 110-hr-2856
Sponsor: Rep. Dicks, Norman D. [D-WA-6]
Introduced: 2007-06-25 in the House
Policy area: Private Legislation
Subjects: Immigration

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Provides for the relief of Alfredo B. de Perio, Myrna L. de Perio, Allan Rey L. de Perio, and Marc de Perio.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-07-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law.
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-25
text: Introduced in House
Prepare All Kids Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2859
Sponsor: Rep. Maloney, Carolyn B. [D-NY-14]
Introduced: 2007-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Child development
Class size
Congressional reporting requirements
Continuing education
Curricula
Disabled
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Elementary and secondary education
Families
Family services
Federal aid to education
Foster home care
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government trust funds
Higher education
Homeless
Illiteracy
Parent-school relationships
Poor children
Preschool education
School administration
Social Welfare
Special education
Student transportation
Teacher education
Transportation and Public Works

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: 
Prepare All Kids Act of 2007 - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a Prekindergarten Incentive Fund from which matching grants shall be awarded to states and, through them, subgrants to qualified prekindergarten providers to establish, expand, or enhance voluntary high quality full-day prekindergarten programs serving children ages three through five.
 
Requires prekindergarten providers to target children from families with incomes at or below 200% of the poverty line and provide them with program services free of charge. 
 
Directs state grantees to set aside: (1) at least 10% of a grant for quality early childhood development programs for children ages zero through three; and (2) at least 10% of a grant to extend the hours of early childhood programs to create extended day and year programs. 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-06-28
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H7344)
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E1415)
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Language Education for Success Act of 2007

Bill: 110-hr-2861
Sponsor: Rep. Velazquez, Nydia M. [D-NY-12]
Introduced: 2007-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Directories
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational research
Elementary education
English language
Federal aid to education
Federally-guaranteed loans
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Government publicity
Higher education
Immigrant education
Immigration
Labor and Employment
Recruiting of employees
Scholarships
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Student loan funds
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand
Teachers

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: 
Language Education for Success Act of 2007 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide student loan forgiveness under the Federal Family Education Loan and Direct loan programs to teachers of students of limited English proficiency who have taught for five consecutive complete school years at elementary or secondary schools that serve a high proportion of disadvantaged children.
 
Directs the Commissioner of the National Center for Educational Statistics to study and report to Congress on the performance of recipients of grants for the language instruction of limited English proficient and immigrant students under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to measure student academic progress.
 
Directs the Secretary of Education to compile and publicize a list of state instructional programs for such students that assesses the costs and benefits of each program.
 
Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants under the Pell Grant program to institutions of higher education to provide: (1) foreign language and teacher preparation instruction to incoming first-year undergraduates during the months preceding their enrollment; and (2) scholarships to such students for the costs of such instruction.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education, Lifelong Learning, and Competitiveness.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Introduced in House
Reliable and Accurate Graduation Rate Act

Bill: 110-hr-2862
Sponsor: Rep. Castle, Michael N. [R-DE-At Large]
Introduced: 2007-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Disabled
Dropouts
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational statistics
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
English language
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Special education
Student enrollment

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: 
Reliable and Accurate Graduation Rate Act - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to require states that receive school improvement funds under part A of title I to calculate graduation rates by dividing the number of students in schools or local educational agencies who receive a regular diploma by the number of first time ninth-grade students who enrolled four years earlier, taking into account student transfers, recently arrived limited English proficient students, students who enroll in an early college high school, and disabled students who require an extra year to receive a diploma.
 
Allows states to publish and report additional completion measures for those students who completed high school or some equivalent measure in more than four years.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Introduced in House
SKILLs Act

Bill: 110-hr-2864
Sponsor: Rep. Grijalva, Raúl M. [D-AZ-7]
Introduced: 2007-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Education
Subjects: Academic performance
Authorization
Continuing education
Department of Education
Economics and Public Finance
Education of the disadvantaged
Educational accountability
Educational planning
Elementary and secondary education
Elementary education
Federal aid to education
Government Operations and Politics
Higher education
Labor and Employment
Law
Licenses
Literacy programs
Rating of teachers
Reading
Recruiting of employees
School districts
School libraries
School personnel
Secondary education
Social Welfare
Teacher education
Teacher supply and demand

Summary:
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: 
Strengthening Kids' Interest in Learning and Libraries Act or the SKILLs Act - Amends title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to authorize appropriations for FY2008-FY2013 for the Improving Literacy through School Libraries grant program.
 
Requires states and local educational agencies (LEAs) that receive school improvement funds to ensure that by the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year there is at least one highly qualified school library media specialist in every school that receives such funds. 
 
Requires Improving Literacy through School Libraries funds to be: (1) proportionally distributed to serve students in elementary, middle, and high schools; (2) used for media resources appropriate for all grades; and (3) used for professional development in information literacy instruction that is appropriate for all grades.
 
Expands the program of grants to states and subgrants to LEAs for the recruitment, retention, and professional development of teachers to require that highly qualified school library media specialists be included in the focus of such efforts.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2007-09-11
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2007-06-26
text: Introduced in House